ROYAL NAVY SOUTH ATLANTIC COMMAND

4)CAPE WARWICK (ARMED TRAWLER)

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Photo. www.iwm.org.uk  Sister ship Stella Canopus

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Completed 1939

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Displacement 455 tons

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Length 138 ft

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Beam 23 ft

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Draught 13 ft

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Propulsion 3-cylinder triple-expansion steam engine, 1 screw

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Armament 2 × pounder guns AA

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Complement 30

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From mid 1942 until the end of the war, Cape Warwick remained attached to the south Atlantic Force at Simonstown. On 02/Apr/43 Cape Warwick rescued the master, 124 crew members, four gunners and 196 passengers from the british Merchant City of Baroda torpedoed when in convoy NC 9 by U 509 on pos  26º 56’S 15º 21’E. After an ordeal of 4 days, living on a miserable rationing, They landed in Capetown.

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