HMT Cambridgeshire (FY142)

HMT "Cambridgeshire" (FY142) was a British Second World War anti-submarine trawler of the British Royal Navy, named after Cambridgeshire, an English county.

The 443 ton trawler was laid down on 2 July 1935 at Smiths Dock Company of South Bank-on-Tees and completed by the end of the year. It was requisitioned by the Royal Navy in August 1939 shortly before the outbreak of the war and converted to an anti-submarine vessel, armed with a single 4 inch gun, machine guns and depth charges. [cite web | url = http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/6320.html | work= Uboat.net | title = HMS "Cambridgeshire" (FY 142) | accessdate= 2007-01-21 ] cite web | url= http://www.wartimememories.co.uk/ships/cambridgeshire.html | title = HMS "Cambridgeshire" | work = The Wartime Memories Project | accessdate= 2007-01-21 ]

The vessel took part in the rescue of passengers and crew from the bombing of RMS "Lancastria" during Operation Ariel on 17 June 1940.cite web | url= http://www.wartimememories.co.uk/ships/cambridgeshire.html | title = HMS "Cambridgeshire" | work = The Wartime Memories Project | accessdate= 2007-01-21 ] "Cambridgeshire" was sold in 1945, returning to commercial fishing, and renamed "Kingston Sapphire" in 1947. The trawler was scrapped at Bruges, Belgium in October 1954.

ee also

*HMS "Cambridge" for other ships of a similar name

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