ROYAL NAVY SOUTH ATLANTIC COMMAND

15)INKPEN (ARM TRAWLER)

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Completed: 1941

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Displacement: 750 tons

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Length: 155 ft

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Beam: 40 ft

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Draught: 12 ft

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Propulsion:  One 1-SE Cylindrical Boiler

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Armament: QF 12 pounder (76-mm) HA/LA main gun,  3 x 20 mm Anti Aircraft guns, 4 x 0.5 in machine guns (2x2)

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Complement: 37

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HMS Inkpen saw active service in the south Atlantic in numerous convoy Escort duties.  On 14/Jun44 while based Freetown when escorting a convoy consisting of the French merchant Saint Basile and two A/S trawlers HMS Birdlip (T 218), HMS Turcoman  off Greenville, Liberia they were attacked by U-547 which sank HMS Birdlip (T 218)  at 01.36 hours with a Gnat and at 02.56 hours the merchant Saint Basile. HMS Inkpen  rescued 15 survivors from HMS Birdlip and 43 from Saint Basile being 22 French and 21 DEMS Senegalese ratings.

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HMS Inkpen also rescued  the master and 28 survivors from Spanish merchant Castillo Montealegre sunk  08/Apr/43 by U-123 on pos 09º46”N 16º50” W. Twelve survivors had abandoned ship on a raft and were never seen again.

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