HMS Shearwater (L39)

HMS "Shearwater" was a "Kingfisher"-class sloop of the Royal Navy.

"Shearwater" was laid down at J. Samuel White, Cowes on 15 August 1939. She was launched on 18 April 1939 and commissioned on 7 September 1939. She served during the Second World War and survived to be sold for scrapping on 21 April 1947. She was broken up by Stockton Ship & Salvage Company.

She was the fictional HMS "Winger" (a Flower class corvette) in Nicholas Monsarrat's book 'Corvette Command' of the Three Corvettes series. This vessel was also the very first sloop to be commanded by an RNVR officer.Fact|date=June 2008

References

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* [http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/6220.html HMS Shearwater at Uboat.net]
* Monsarrat, Nicholas, "Corvette Command", Cassell, 1944