HMS Kos XXI

Navy	The Royal Navy
Type	ASW Whaler
Class	[No specific class]
Pennant
Built by	Smiths Dock Co., Ltd. (South Bank-on-Tees, U.K.)
Ordered
Laid down
Launched	9 Jul 1937
Commissioned	Jan 1941
Lost	4 Oct 1941
Loss position	32° 09'N, 25° 17'E

History	Completed in August 1937. Norwegian whaler of Hvalfangerselskap Kosmos A/S (Anders Jahre), Sandefjord, Norway taken over by the Admiralty in October 1940. Displacement: 353 tons. Renamed Whippet in September 1941. HMS Whippet (Lt. A.R.J. Tilston, RNR) was bombed and sunk by German aircraft north-north-east of Bardia, Libya in position 32º09'N, 25º17'E.

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Lt. Arthur Robert James Tilston, SANF(V)	???	4 Oct 1941

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