1
9 3 9
August
Preparation
for foreign service
at Hong
Kong.
September
Deployed
in Mediterranean having been diverted
during passage to Hong Kong to
join
Local Flotilla
Carried out
contraband control duty.
October
Mediterranean patrol in continuation.
to
Transferred for escort of Atlantic
convoys.
December
1
9 4 0
January
Atlantic
and Mediterranean
patrol and convoy defence in
continuation.
to
May
June
Transferred
to Western Approaches for Atlantic
convoy escort duty.
Part of Escort for
Convoy HG53 from Gibraltar
to Cape
Finisterre.
July
Deployed
on Atlantic convoy defence.
to
September
October
18th
Joined Atlantic Convoy HX73 from Halifax
to UK with H M Destroyer WHITEHALL,
HM
Minesweeper
JASON, HM Corvettes HIBISCUS,
HELIOTROPE,
COREOPSIS
and ARABIS,
HM Trawlers LADY
ELSA, BLACKFLY and ANGLE.
Dutch submarine O.21 was also part
of the escort
as an ‘experiment' for attack on
commerce
raiders.
19th
Under attack
by group of U-Boats
during which 12 merchant ships were
sunk and two
damaged,
representing 24.5%
of the convoy.
(Note: This
disastrous
event highlighted the failure of the
escort and resulted in a
drastic
re-appraisal of
techniques - See THE BATTLE OF THE
ATLANTIC
by D MacIntyre
and U-BOAT WAR IN THE ATLANTIC (HMSO).
30th
Ran aground on
Isle of Tiree
and
wrecked