HMCS Nene (K270) | |
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![]() HMS Nene | |
Career (United Kingdom) | |
Name: | HMS Nene |
Namesake: | River Nene, England |
Builder: | Smith's Dock, Middlesbrough, England |
Launched: | 9 December 1942 |
Commissioned: | 8 April 1943 |
Out of service: |
March 1944 (transferred to RCN) |
Reinstated: | June 1945 |
Identification: | Pennant number: K270 |
Honours and awards: |
Biscay 1943 Arctic 1943–44 Atlantic 1943–44 North Sea 1945 |
Fate: | Broken up for salvage in 1955 |
Career (Canada) | |
Name: | HMCS Nene |
Commissioned: | March 1944 |
Out of service: |
June 1945 (returned to RN) |
Identification: | Pennant number: K270 |
General characteristics | |
Class & type: | River-class frigate |
HMS Nene, later HMCS Nene, was a River-class frigate, designed for anti-submarine operations, which was crewed by both the British and the Canadian navies during World War II.
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HMS Nene was built at Smith's Dock, Middlesbrough, England. It was launched on 9 December 1942, and commissioned on 8 April 1943 into the Royal Navy.[1] A Warship Week National Savings effort led to the community of Oundle – which lies on the River Nene – in Northamptonshire adopting the ship.[2]
The ship joined the Western Approaches Command at Londonderry, Northern Ireland, and crossed the Atlantic on convoy duty to St. John's, Newfoundland. The ship was involved in operations of the Royal Navy Support Group, then attached to the 5th and later 6th Escort Group, Western Approaches Command.[3] In February 1944, the frigate was involved in anti-submarine operations off the west coast of Ireland, assisting in the sinking of submarine U-536 near the Azores.[4]
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In March 1944 HMS Nene arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia, where the ship underwent a refit and was recommissioned to the Royal Canadian Navy, as HMCS Nene. In July the ship headed to Bermuda on a training run for the new crew, after which the Nene joined Escort Group C5 Western Approaches Command.[3] From the group's base at Londonderry, the ship escorted three transatlantic convoys with this group.[4]
HMCS Nene served briefly as part of the convoy JW-61A, escorting personnel carriers,[3] and then was assigned to Escort Group 9. After anti-submarine patrol around the British Isles, during which two of the group's ships were torpedoed,[3] the frigate became one of many ships escorting convoys on the Murmansk Run.[5] In April 1945, at Portsmouth harbour, the S.S. Cuba, was torpedoed, and the crew of the Nene rescued 265 sailors from the sinking ship.[3]
In May 1945, as the war ended, HMCS Nene was called away from convoy duty to take part in the surrender of a group of fifteen German submarines, including U-992 and U-997, which were escorted to Loch Eriboll, Scotland, for disposal.[1][3] In June, at Sheerness, Nene was returned to the Royal Navy. Her Canadian crew were sent to the naval base at Greenlock, Scotland to await the trip home.[3]
Nene was reclassified as a B2 reserve ship, was towed to Harwich and later to Barrow-in-Furness,[3] and finally broken up for salvage in 1955 by T. W. Ward Ltd. at Briton Ferry, Wales.[1][4]
References[]
- Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Hird, David M., The Grey Wolves of Eriball, Bell & Bain, Ltd, Glasgow, 2010.
- ↑ Geoffrey B Mason (2005)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Riley, Ken (ed.), Nene Lives: the Story of the H.M.C.S. Nene and her Crew, Ottawa, 1993
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Macpherson, Ken, "Nene", Frigates of the Royal Canadian Navy: 1943 – 1973"", Vanwell Publishing,St. Catherines, 1989.
- ↑ Ruegg, Bob, and Hague, Arnold, Convoys to Russia, World Ship Society, 1992
- Bibliography
- Geoffrey B Mason RN (edited Gordon Smith) HMS, later HMCS Nene (K 270) Service Histories of Royal Navy Warships in World War 2 naval-history.net (2005)
- HMS Nene (K 270) uboat.net
- HMCS Nene (K 270) uboat.net
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