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spidge · 09-01-2008, 06:36 AM

Another great resource on shipping lost in ww2

http://www.royal-naval-reserve.co.uk/lost.htm

TRAWLERS LOST
DURING WWII

1939-1940 1941-1942 1943-1945

The Royal Naval Patrol Service (RNPS), developed from the pre-war Royal Naval Reserve Trawler Section, manned at its World War 2 peak, 1637 craft of various kinds including converted trawlers, corvettes, fuel carriers, motor launches and naval seaplane tenders. Of this total, from September 1939 through to May 1945, approximately 260 trawlers were lost in action, from the northern seas off Norway to the eastern seaboard of North America, the Far East, Africa and the Mediterranean. This material loss however pales into insignificance when compared to the 15,000 or so, RNPS personnel who were killed during WWII and the 2385 RNPS seaman who "have no known grave but the sea".
Included on the following pages are details of those Admiralty trawlers lost during World War 2.

Trawlers Lost - World War 2

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spidge Super Moderator Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Melbourne Australia Posts: 3,315 You're Top Poster: #3 Awards Showcase Total Awards: 6	Trawlers Lost During WW2 Another great resource on shipping lost in ww2 http://www.royal-naval-reserve.co.uk/lost.htm TRAWLERS LOST DURING WWII 1939-1940 1941-1942 1943-1945 The Royal Naval Patrol Service (RNPS), developed from the pre-war Royal Naval Reserve Trawler Section, manned at its World War 2 peak, 1637 craft of various kinds including converted trawlers, corvettes, fuel carriers, motor launches and naval seaplane tenders. Of this total, from September 1939 through to May 1945, approximately 260 trawlers were lost in action, from the northern seas off Norway to the eastern seaboard of North America, the Far East, Africa and the Mediterranean. This material loss however pales into insignificance when compared to the 15,000 or so, RNPS personnel who were killed during WWII and the 2385 RNPS seaman who "have no known grave but the sea". Included on the following pages are details of those Admiralty trawlers lost during World War 2. Trawlers Lost - World War 2 __________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm