HMT Svana

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NameHMT Svana
Builder Smith's Dock Company.
Launched30 July 1930
AcquiredApril 1940
FateSunk on 8 April 1942
General characteristics
Displacement268 tons

HMT Svana (FY 1707) was a minesweeper whaler of the Royal Navy during the Second World War. [1]

She was originally built for the South Georgia Co. Ltd. by Smiths Dock Co., Ltd. (South Bank-on-Tees, U.K.) and operated by Christian Salvesen & Co., Leith, UK. She was launched on 30 July 1930 with a displacement of 268 tons. She was taken over by the Admiralty in April 1940 and assigned to the Royal Naval Patrol Service. Under the command of Lt. John McDonald Ruttan, [2] DSC, RCNVR she was bombed and sunk off Alexandria, Egypt on 8 April 1942. [3]

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Uboat.net
  2. ↑ "seawaves.com". Archived from the original on 21 November 2008. Retrieved 15 July 2008.
  3. ↑ Lenton, H.T.and Colledge, J.J. (1964). British and Dominion Warships of World War II. Doubleday., London.

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