Allied Warships

HMS Erith (FY 578)

MS Trawler

Navy	The Royal Navy
Type	MS Trawler
Class	[No specific class]
Pennant	FY 578
Built by	Cochrane & Sons Shipbuilders Ltd. (Selby, U.K.)
Ordered
Laid down
Launched	8 May 1917
Commissioned	Feb 1940
End service
History	Completed on 8 August 1917. Taken over by the Admiralty in February 1940. Displacement: 325 tons. Renamed Polesie in 1943 ???. Returned to her owner in June 1945. Renamed Feniks in 1957. Scrapped in Poland in 1960.

Commands listed for HMS Erith (FY 578)

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Skr. John Henry Wardell, RNR	12 Aug 1940	16 Sep 1940
2	T/Skr. Harry James May, RNR	16 Sep 1940	1 Nov 1942
3	T/Skr. Colin Chandler, RNR	1 Nov 1942	12 Aug 1943
4	T/Skr. Harold Maunder, RNR	12 Aug 1943	31 Jul 1944
5	T/Skr. Frank Louis Hadfield, RNR	31 Jul 1944	late 1945

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