HMS SENNEN Y21

HMS SENNEN Y21

ex-USCGC CHAMPLAIN (WPG48) : The vessel served with the US Coastguard service until transferred to the RN under the UK/US Lend-Lease Agreement in 1940

Class……………………………Banff -class Sloop

Builder……………………….. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Quincy, Mass

Yard number……………….1414

Laid down..………………….23 May 1928

Launched….…………………11 Oct 1928

Completed.………………….24 January 1929

Decommissioned USGC.. 12 May 1941

Transferred to RN……….. 12 May 1941

Propulsion.…………………..1 shaft : Turbo-Electric Drive System comprising 1 Curtis Steam Turbine powering a General Electric generator driving an electric motor, 2 Babcock & Wilcox oil fired boilers.

Speed..…………………………17 knots

Range…………………………..8000nm at 12 knots

Fate

•HMS SENNEN remained in the Indian Ocean after VJ-Day until 16th December 1945 when she returned to UK.

•16 January 1946……Arrived Chatham to be de-stored ready from return to USA

•20 March 1946………..Paid off from RN service and handed back US coastguard Service.

• 27 March 1946………. Resumed coastguard service as USS CHAMPLAIN and placed in reserve

•March 1948.………..Sold to Hughes Brothers, Inc. of New York for breaking up

 

 

HMS SENNEN on 30 December 1945 at Malta on her way back to UK

 

In 1945 her commanding officer briefly was Lt. Bernard Morland Skinner. He would later have command of HMS AMETHYST (as a LT. Cdr) when the vessel was on passage on the Yangtse River bound for Nanking. Skinner was fatally wounded on 20 April 1949 during the shelling of the vessel by the Chinese was to die of his wounds two days later.

 

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