ROYAL NAVY SOUTH ATLANTIC COMMAND - ROYAL NAVY C D 30 SHIPS *
2)CANNA (ARMED TRAWLER)
Photo. www.iwm.org.uk Sister ship HMS Ailsa Craig
Completed: 1940
Displacement: 545 tons
Length: 164 ft
Beam: 27 ft
Draught: 11 ft
Propulsion: 1 triple expansion reciprocating engine, 1 shaft, 850 ihp (634 kW)
Speed: 12 kts
Complement: 40
Armament: One 12-pounder gun and three or four 20 mm Oerlikon AA guns with 30 depth charges.
On 20/Aug/42 HMS Canna rescued one boat with one survivor from the Norwegian Merchant Mirlo sunk 11/Aug by U-130 in pos 06º 04’N 26º 53’W. 11 men had been rescued by HMS Banff Y 43, and 16 other by HMS Boreas H 77. This survival among other injuries was found to have a skull fracture when they arrived at Freetown two days later.
On 5/Nov/42,HMS Canna rescued twenty two survivors from SS Peterton sunk 17/Sep/42 by U- 109 in pos. 18.45N, 29.15W after forty nine days adrift in an open boat, the last six days with no food and only a few ounces of rain water to spare when they were found. HMS Canna landed them at Freetown.
