HMT Bradman (FY 189) was a 452-ton anti-submarine warfare trawler of the Royal Navy during the Second World War.[1] She was built by Cochrane & Sons, Selby and was launched on 31 October 1936. As a fishing vessel of the Bunch Steam Fishing company she was registered at Grimsby.
In the leadup to the war she was requisitioned by the Admiralty on 26 August 1939 and commissioned into the Royal Navy in October.
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Finnmark, Norway by the Soviet submarine M-201 on 19 August 1944. "HMSBradman (FY 189)". Uboat.net. Retrieved 24 August 2011. Lenton & Colledge 1973...
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Germany on 9 April, she was struck by a torpedo from the Royal Navy submarine HMS Truant and severely damaged. Unable to return to port, Karlsruhe was scuttled...
transport squadron. On 14 April she was torpedoed by the British submarine HMS Sterlet off Jutland, losing the complete bow section. In the mid-1930s two...
and the equipment was auctioned off in 1993. HMS Ormonde (1906) HMT Warwick Deeping (1934) HMSBradman (1936) Arctic Viking (1937) RV Ernest Holt (1948)...
large number of destroyers and supported by carrier aircraft. The battleship HMS Warspite and nine destroyers duly appeared on 13 April, although earlier...
destroyers of the British 2nd Destroyer Flotilla, HMS Hardy, HMS Havock, HMS Hunter, HMS Hotspur, and HMS Hero, surprised the five German destroyers in Narvik...
ships as they approached their destination, including the destroyers HMS Juno and HMS Jersey, but were not spotted in return. As the two German destroyers...
middle of the Thames Estuary on the night of 17/18 November. The destroyer HMS Gipsy, one trawler, and seven other ships totalling 27,565 Gross Register...
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