Английская Википедия:HMS Lady Shirley
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HMS Lady Shirley (T464), also known as HMT Lady Shirley,[1] was a fishing trawler requisitioned by the Royal Navy in 1940 and converted for anti-submarine warfare duties.[2] She sank Шаблон:GS on 4Шаблон:NbspOctober 1941, capturing 44 of her crew. Lady Shirley was sunk herself on 11Шаблон:NbspDecember 1941, by a single torpedo from Шаблон:GS.
Description
Lady Shirley was a fishing trawler of 472 tons displacement based at Hull. She was built at Beverley in the UK by Cook, Welton & Gemmell and launched in 1937. She was Шаблон:Convert long and Шаблон:Convert in the beam. She had a Шаблон:Convert engine giving a top speed of Шаблон:Convert.[1]
Service record
She was pressed into service by the Royal Navy in 1940 and converted into an anti-submarine trawler. Conversion included fitting an ASDIC anti-submarine dome, a 4-inch naval gun and depth charges. She had a complement of 33. Lady Shirley went into service in January 1941 and served with the 31st Anti-Submarine Group based at Gibraltar. She was under the command of Lieutenant-Commander Arthur Henry Callaway.[1]
Sinking of U-111
On 4 October 1941, while searching for the damaged Silverbelle, Lady Shirley encountered Шаблон:GS engaged in a similar mission south-west of Tenerife, at position Шаблон:Coord.[2] Mistaking the trawler for the damaged freighter (though Lady Shirley was small, the U-boat skipper thought she was far away) the U-boat was caught at periscope depth when Lady Shirley closed, and was depth charged. Forced to the surface, U-111 was engaged with gunfire until she was abandoned and sunk.[3] Of the U-boat crew of 52, eight were killed, including her commander, Wilhelm Kleinschmidt; 44 survived. Lady Shirley had one crew member killed and several injured in the battle.[1] This was the first time that prisoners of war (POWs) were captured from a U-boat operating in the South Atlantic. German survivors claimed that U-111 was the first U-boat to be lost of those operating in that area.[4]
Loss
On 11Шаблон:NbspDecember 1941, a torpedo from Шаблон:GS hit Lady Shirley, sinking her in the Straits of Gibraltar at position Шаблон:Coord. All 33 crew were lost with their ship.[1][2]
References
External links
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- ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 1,3 1,4 Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 2,2 Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Clay Blair, Hitler's U-Boat War Vol I (1996) Шаблон:ISBN pp. 385-6
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
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