Allied Warships

HMS Wyoming (FY 1862)

MS Trawler

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeMS Trawler
Class[No specific class] 
PennantFY 1862 
Built byCochrane & Sons Shipbuilders Ltd. (Selby, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched 
Commissioned 1940 
Lost20 May 1944 
History

Completed in April 1915.
Taken over by the Admiralty in 1940.
Displacement: 302 tons.
Armament: 1 12pdr AA gun.

Mined and sunk 20 nautical miles east-north-east of Harwich on 20 May 1944.

 

Commands listed for HMS Wyoming (FY 1862)

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CommanderFromTo
1George Alfred Camburn, RNR3 Jun 1940early 1941
2T/Skr. John Christopher Ainsworth, RNRearly 194130 Jun 1941
3T/Lt. John Lawson Metcalfe, RNVR30 Jun 19411 Nov 1943
4T/Skr. Harold Acum, RNR1 Nov 194319 Jan 1944 (1)
5T/Skr. Walter Henry Bunce, RNR19 Jan 194420 May 1944

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