Out of the five ships in its class, three of them, HMS Peacock (P239), HMS Plover (P240), and HMS Starling (P241), were left in Hong Kong until 1997.
26th On She was active in the Battle of the Atlantic during the Second World War and was the most successful anti-submarine warfare vessel of the Royal Navy, being credited with the destruction of fourteen U-boats.
HMS Black Swan and the 1938 Black Swan-Class: HMS Black Swan, the name ship of her class (although actually the second built, after HMS Flamingo (L18)), was laid down in 1938. See references. Starlings first success came on 1 June 1943, when the group's first U-boat was detected: fortuitously on a fine day and identified by a Lt. Earl Howe Pitt. In 1947 she was redesignated as a frigate and served for a decade as a training ship for the Royal Navy's Navigation Training School, and in 1965 she was scrapped. Officers' Mess, 5024 Squadron, RAF Hong Kong, Christmas 1945 [signed menu] Film. May ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS in WORLD WAR 2 They were generally larger and faster than corvettes, with a considerable focus on AA armament, and were longer-ranged but smaller and slower than destroyers. 15th On October Deployed They were specifically built for service in Hong Kong with the 6th Patrol Craft Squadron; for work in tropical climates they were fully air conditioned and were capable of remaining at sea during typhoons.
In 1942, the first of over 1.5 million American servicemen arrived on British shores in preparation for the Allied offensives against Germany during the Second World War.
Starling was ordered on 18 July 1941 under the 1940 Supplementary War Building Programme; she was laid down by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company at Govan, Scotland, on 21 October 1941. l s o f W a r The two ships take their names from traditional Irish mythology: Orla, a grand niece (great niece) of Brian Boru, the 11th-century High King of Ireland. [10] She had no other success, though three U-boats were destroyed in attacks on JW 58. Her final voyage was a call at Bootle Liverpool to attend a farewell celebration provided by the local authority and Captain Walker's widow took passage on the final sailing from Bootle to Portsmouth where she paid off. In May the group responded to an attack on USS Donnell by U-473. Customs services and international tracking provided . 1801 for a Gun-Brig. She was forced to return to Britain for repairs, under the temporary command of Cdr. (Note: For details of this sinking and of all others sunk by Group see U-BOATS Deployed with Group for independent anti-submarine operations against the IGEL HMS Opossum left Singapore on 11th October 1947 to return home at the end of her commission, and arrived at Portsmouth on 17th November. Patrol Vessel in 1984. first operational mission to support Atlantic convoys. Approaches. Convoy We had sticks. the effectiveness of 'Creeping' A/S attacks. The Fighting Captain.
DEG Wemyss of Wild Goose, Walker having stayed with the group. Action filled War Thunder skies and battlefields, German Vehicles, History, Model building, Online Games. They were respectively renamed as LÉ Ciara (P42) and LÉ Orla (P41), and were commissioned under their current names by then-Taoiseach Charles Haughey on 16 January 1989. 0000003242 00000 n
google_ad_height = 90; Both submarines destroyed in position 45.44N 16.20W without any survivors. Object details Category Souvenirs and ephemera Creator HMS STARLING, HONG KONG SQUADRON (Author) Catalogue number LBY K. 08 / 1601. Rural District, then in Lancashire, CHINA 1841-42 -
Ireland from threat by IGEL group weather damage repair in Liverpool. The new Hong Kong Squadron was now complete. Further information: Peacock-class corvette. She was essentially a lengthened version of the earlier Egret-Class sloops, with one fewer turret to make room for more anti-aircraft armament, which was planned to be a fourth quad-barrelled 2-Pounder (40mm) "Pom Pom" AA gun. Do you have 5 minutes to help us improve our website? This name was carried forward when given to a PEACOCK Class EUR 22.19. 0000001039 00000 n Starling joined Western Approaches Command in April 1943 under the command of Captain Frederic John Walker, leader of the 2nd Support Group (2SG). 29th Began
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There were no survivors. aircraft from, 15th Sank In December, while in support of SL 140/MKS 31, Starling attacked and damaged U-843, forcing it to abandon its attack. Engaged submarine by gunfire with other ships of Group. new Group and Redeployed with in Western Approaches for the escort and 3rd In March 1946 she began training duties as a Tender to the Navigation HMS Peacock (P239), HMS Plover (P240), and HMS Starling (P241) were sold to the Philippines and were officially turned over to the Philippine Navy on 1 August 1997 after Hong Kong was returned to China. Starling participated in the sinking of fourteen U-boats: During the war the Starling was credited, along with the sloops Amethyst, Peacock, Hart, and frigate Loch Craggie, with sinking the U-482 in the North Channel on 16 January 1945. Related objects. Initially, however, HMS Black Swan was equipped with two quad mounts of Vickers .50 Cal machine guns, though these were soon replaced by the 40mm "Pom Pom" mount as planned, along with a single-mount Oerlikon 20mm autocannon. AMERICANS LEARN KNOW-HOW OF BRITISH MINESWEEPING TECHNIQUE. Off and reduced to Reserve status at Portsmouth. The Black Swan and Modified Black Swan-Class Sloops were a series of WWII British sloops-of-war; a type of vessel specialised (as British corvettes also were) for convoy defence and sub-hunting duties. January Joined A Merry Xmas and a …
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ISBN 0-85052-555-1. After detection of wireless transmissions began search for submarine. 1st HMS Starling joined the squadron in January 1985, and HMS Swallow followed it in April with HMS Swift joining later in the year. Under her new captain, Cdr. 24th After
This wasn't the only upgrade she saw: a Hedgehog anti-submarine weapon (a forward-firing spigot mortar which launched contact-fuse 178mm HE shells) was added in 1942, 5 more 20mm Oerlikons were fitted over the course of the war (for a total of 6), and by 1945 her depth charge complement had increased to 110. on 26th May 1958.
In June Starling was part of part of "Operation Neptune" in support of the Normandy landings, and was instrumental in preventing any attacks on the invasion fleet. Her war service and successes were Deployed in support of convoys in Western Approaches. Locations per Kemp; other sources may differ, Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMS_Starling_(U66)&oldid=977044455, World War II sloops of the United Kingdom, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 6 September 2020, at 16:09. to © 2020 by Gaijin Games Kft. 0000007266 00000 n HMS Amethyst was notable among the postwar Black Swan frigates due to her involvement in the 1949 Yangtze River Incident, which also involved HMS Black Swan herself.
Group for convoy support in Atlantic and Bay of Biscay. Joined escort for Convoy HX262 with HM Sloops MAGPIE, KITE, WOODCOCK and. SB, Govan 18th July 1941 and laid down as Job No 11701 (Yard No 701)on 21st October Published by Gaijin Network Ltd. under the exclusive license. [4] Over a 15-hour period the group found, tracked and destroyed U-202, in the longest hunt of the Atlantic campaign up to that point, On their return to Liverpool, Starling and 2SG were assigned to "Operation Musketry", an attempt, in concert with Coastal Command, to interdict the U-boat transit routes across the Bay of Biscay. to bear the name, introduced in Under U-Boat attack as part of escort for HX241. escort Carriers NAIRANA and ACTIVITY to safeguard passage of. North Atlantic. 10th Operational area (Note: During this deployment the Group sank four U-Boats.). 2nd Sank requirement lapsed and returned to Devonport to pay off. March After a successful WARSHIP WEEK National Savings Her cracked ship’s bell was auctioned and, despite a large bid for HMS Osprey who wanted it for their war museum, Commander Wemyss and several later captains of Starling clubbed together to present the bell to Eilleen Walker now living in Devon. �l{�i��Aj���[P��+�~ttBYu��`�bISzw{"�:ձHe���l�J��lR � ܩCR]G%��WDo�U�y_� Naval History Homepage Captain Walker. STARLING, These convoy lists have not been
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12th Taken including Convoy Escort Movements, Edited by Gordon Smith, Naval-History.Net, Modified BLACK SWAN-Class Sloop ordered from Fairfield File:HMS Starling P241.jpg. Hunts for these "lone wolves" was a slow and tedious business, though merchant ship losses were kept to a minimum. MAGPIE in support, of 11th [6], In November 1943, in operations around HX 264, Starling and 2 SG accounted for two more U-boats, U-226 and U-842.[7]. 0000001194 00000 n anti-submarine operations following interception of radio signals from U-Boats. and towed to the breakers yard at Queenborough, Kant defence. Suggestion passed to the developers for consideration.
Deployed with Group in support of safe -passage of Convoy HX235.
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