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Name | Bradman |
Owner | Bunch Steam Fishing Company |
Builder | Cochrane & Sons, Selby |
Launched | 31 October 1936 |
History | |
United Kingdom | |
Name | HMT Bradman (FY 189) |
Namesake | Don Bradman |
Owner | Royal Navy |
Acquired | 26 August 1939 |
Commissioned | October 1939 |
Fate | Sunk, 25 April 1940 |
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Germany | |
Name | V 6112 Friese |
Owner | Kriegsmarine |
Acquired | 11 July 1940 |
Fate | Sunk, 19 August 1944 |
General characteristics | |
Tonnage | 452 GRT |
Propulsion | 1 x 3-cylinder triple expansion engine |
Speed | 11 knots |
HMT Bradman (FY 189) was a 452-ton anti-submarine warfare trawler of the Royal Navy during the Second World War.[1] She was built by Cochrane & Sons, Selby and was launched on 31 October 1936. As a fishing vessel of the Bunch Steam Fishing company she was registered at Grimsby. In the leadup to the war she was requisitioned by the Admiralty on 26 August 1939 and commissioned into the Royal Navy in October.
In the Norwegian campaign she was damaged by German aircraft on 25 April 1940 and run aground.
Fate
Bradman was sunk by German aircraft in Romdalsfjord on 25 April 1940. She was refloated by German forces on 11 July,[2] and returned to service as the Vorpostenboot V6112 Friese. She was torpedoed and sunk off Vardø, Finnmark, Norway by the Soviet submarine M-201 on 19 August 1944.[3]
References
- ↑ "HMS Bradman (FY 189)". Uboat.net. Retrieved 24 August 2011.
- ↑ "Bradman". Shipping and shipbuilding research trust. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
- ↑ "Vorpostenflottillen Norwegen 1941-1944" (in German). Württembergische Landesbibliothek. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
- HMT Bradman (+1940) wrecksite.eu
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