Tree Class ASW / Minesweepers Trawlers

(299) HAZEL – Fate unknown.

(300) HICKORY – Sunk by mine in the English Channel 21^st October 1940.

(312) SALTARELO – Fate unknown.

(313) SWORD DANCE – Sunk as a result of a collision on convoy duty, Moray Firth.

(323) SKYE – Fate unknown.

(324) STAFFA – Operated in Mediterranean theatre. Fate unknown. (below)

(339) WALLASEA – Sunk by E-boat in Mounts Bay, Cornwall 6^th January 1944.

Bird Class ASW / Minesweepers Trawlers (for RNZN)

(314) MOA – In company with HMNZS Kiwi depth-charged the Japanese submarine I-1 on 29^th January 1943.Sunk by Japanese aircraft in the Solomon Islands 7 April 1943. ((picture below))

(315) KIWI – In company with HMNZS Moa rammed and depth-charged the Japanese submarine I-1 on 29^th January 1943. (below)

(316) TUI – Sunk Japanese submarine I-17 on 19^th August 1943.

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