List of requisitioned trawlers of the Royal Navy (WWII)


This is a List of civilian trawlers requisitioned by the Royal Navy for use in World War II. HMT stands for "His Majesty's Trawler".
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Requisitioned trawlers, whalers and drifters;

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Ship designationRequisitionedFate
September 1939Minesweeper, returned December 1944
1940Minesweeper, returned 1945
1940Harbor defense patrol craft, mined off the Humber 3 April 1941
August 1939Anti-submarine, lost in collision with Waterhen off Sollum 30 December 1940
September 1939Harbor service, returned 1944
November 1939Minesweeper, returned January 1946
October 1939Auxiliary patrol, returned 1945
September 1939Boom defense vessel, returned December 1944
1939Auxiliary patrol, sunk by gunfire off the Hebrides 23 December 1939
1940Mine layer tender, returned 1945
February 1940Balloon barrage vessel, Esso, returned December 1944
August 1940Harbor services, returned November 1945
January 1940Boom defense vessel, returned January 1946
July 1940Boom gate vessel, returned March 1946
November 1939Auxiliary patrol, returned January 1940, lost 11 September 1940
February 1940Minesweeper, returned November 1945
November 1939Minesweeper, sunk by Japanese submarine off Ceylon 5 April 1942
April 1940Anti-submarine to Ministry of War Transport September 1945
August 1939Anti-submarine with US Navy, sunk by off Cape Lookout 11 May 1942
November 1939Auxiliary patrol, returned 1940
March 1940Harbor services, returned February 1946
August 1939Exam, returned March 1946
1940Balloon barrage vessel, returned 1944
October 1939Minesweeper, returned 1945
August 1939Exam, lost in collision off the Tyne 12 May 1942
June 1940Auxiliary patrol, returned September 1940
August 1939Minesweeper, returned October 1945
March 1940Minesweeper, returned December 1945
June 1940Minesweeper, returned December 1945
HMT Ben DeargAugust 1939Minesweeper, returned June 1946
February 1940Minesweeper, returned February 1946
June 1940Minesweeper, bombed at Lowestoft 4 May 1941
November 1939Minesweeper, lost 4 May 1941
August 1939Auxiliary patrol, Minesweeper, Esso, returned October 1944
November 1939Minesweeper, returned August 1946
August 1939Minesweeper, returned April 1946
January 1940Exam, Minesweeper, returned September 1945
September 1939Minesweeper, returned March 1946
February 1940Boom defense vessel, returned March 1946
June 1940Boom defense vessel, store carrier, returned February 1945
November 1939Minesweeper, returned September 1946
February 1940Minesweeper, returned December 1945
October 1939Minesweeper, submarine tender, returned 1946
November 1939Auxiliary patrol, returned January 1940
August 1939Anti-submarine, lost 5 December 1942
November 1939Auxiliary patrol, Esso, returned September 1945
May 1942Minesweeper, returned April 1946
September 1939Minesweeper, mined off the Humber 23 February 1940
November 1939Balloon barrage vessel, returned September 1945
October 1939Anti-submarine, returned November 1945
July 1940Boom defense vessel, returned December 1945
September 1939Minesweeper, returned September 1945
July 1940Balloon barrage vessel, tender, returned February 1946
October 1939Auxiliary patrol, returned December 1939
November 1939Auxiliary patrol, Minesweeper, Esso, returned October 1944
March 1940Harbor service, returned March 1946
September 1939Minesweeper, Boom gate vessel, returned 1945
1940Balloon barrage vessel, returned 1945
August 1939Exam, returned June 1946
December 1939Minesweeper, harbor service, returned March 1946
October 1941Minesweeper, mined off Piraeus 30 November 1944
1941Minesweeper, returned 1945
February 1940Minesweeper, returned November 1945
September 1940Minesweeper, returned October 1945
December 1940Anti-Submarine, returned May 1946
August 1939Anti-submarine, lost probably by RN mine, North Sea 2 June 1940
August 1939Anti-submarine, sold March 1946
August 1940Harbor service, returned 1945
August 1940Auxiliary patrol, returned November 1945
1941Lost 11 November 1941
1940Minesweeper, Polish Podole 1944
May 1941Minesweeper, returned July 1945
March 1940Anti-submarine, returned March 1945
May 1940Torpedo recovery vessel, returned February 1946
1940Observation Motor launch, returned November 1945
September 1939Minesweeper, returned December 1944
August 1940Anti-submarine, returned 1945
1940Minesweeper; mined off east coast Scotland 4 January 1943
October 1940Minesweeper, returned July 1946
October 1939Auxiliary patrol, returned January 1940, lost 6 August 1942
April 1944Esso, returned November 1944
May 1941Minesweeper, returned October 1945
August 1939Harbor service, returned October 1945
1940Minesweeper, returned 1946
August 1939Minesweeper, bombed in the North Sea 18 February 1942
1942Exam, returned 1946
1941Harbor service, returned 1946
March 1940Minesweeper, returned 1945
March 1940Minesweeper returned April 1946
March 1940Minesweeper April 1946
March 1940Minesweeper, returned June 1946
November 1940Torpedo recovery vessel, returned May 1946
November 1939Minesweeper, lost in collision, Thames Estuary 10 February 1941
November 1939Minesweeper, returned 1945
1940Auxiliary patrol, lost in collision, Firth of Forth 9 November 1941
1941De-gaussing, returned 1944
October 1939Auxiliary patrol, returned December 1939
December 1939Minesweeper, returned July 1945
October 1939Minesweeper, W.D. August 1943
June 1940Water carrier, returned 1946
November 1939Flare drifter, bombed at Dunkirk 28 May 1940
November 1939Balloon barrage vessel, returned December 1944
August 1939Minesweeper, returned December 1945
August 1939De-gaussing, returned 1946
August 1940Minesweeper August 1946
February 1940Dan layer, returned 1945
November 1939Exam, returned July 1945
November 1939Auxiliary patrol, returned January 1940
August 1939Minesweeper, returned August 1946
1944To be block ship, lost in collision with SS LeBaron Russell Briggs off Bell Rock 30 July 1944
HMT BradmanAugust 1939Anti-submarine, bombed off Norway 25 April 1940
January 1942Harbor service, lost 29 September 1943
July 1940Water carrier, returned 1946
March 1944Esso, returned November 1944
December 1939Anti-submarine, returned 1945
July 1940Minesweeper, returned June 1946
April 1943Minesweeper, returned November 1946
1939Anti-submarine, returned 1945
April 1943Salvage vessel, returned July 1946
September 1939Minesweeper, foundered, Gulf of Saint Lawrence 19 October 1940
August 1939Minesweeper, returned December 1945
July 1940Harbor service, returned December 1945
July 1941Auxiliary patrol, sold March 1946
1940Anti-submarine, sold 1947
January 1942Minesweeper, returned 1946
November 1939Examination service, returned September 1945
September 1939Anti-submarine, sold 1945
August 1939Minesweeper, returned December 1945
September 1939Mine recovery vessel, returned 1945
November 1939Anti-submarine, returned March 1946
December 1939Anti-submarine, returned January 1946
1939Auxiliary patrol, foundered, North Atlantic 6 June 1945
August 1939Minesweeper, sold 1945
August 1939Anti-submarine, sold 1945
July 1940Minesweeper, Esso, returned 1946
November 1939Minesweeper, returned January 1946
1944Esso, returned 1945
November 1939Auxiliary patrol, returned January 1940
July 1940Auxiliary patrol, returned August 1946
August 1939Minesweeper, Boom defense vessel, returned December 1945
1942Harbor service, returned March 1946
September 1939Minesweeper, wreck dispersal vessel, returned January 1946
February 1940Dan layer, sold 1946
August 1939Harbor service, returned 1945
December 1940Minesweeper, Icicle 1941, returned Jan, 1946
1940Minesweeper, Silhouette 1941, Royal Norwegian Navy, Royal Hellenic Navy Acheloos 1943, returned February 1947
1940Minesweeper, Snowdrift 1941, Royal Norwegian Navy 1941, Royal Hellenic Navy Thasos 1943
1940Auxiliary patrol, returned September 1946
October 1939Boom defense vessel, Balloon barrage vessel, returned 1946

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Ship designationRequisitionedFate
July 1940Minesweeper, returned May 1946
1940Dan layer, returned 1946
1941Minesweeper, returned 1945
April 1941Minesweeper, Fiery Cross 1944, returned August 1946
May 1940Auxiliary patrol, Minesweeper, returned April 1946
March 1940Minesweeper, returned 1946
November 1939Minesweeper, returned 1943
September 1939Anti-submarine, sold 1945
November 1939Minesweeper, mined, Thames Estuary 25 November 1940
April 1944Esso. returned November 1944
July 1940Minesweeper, mined in the Channel 6 March 1941
December 1939Balloon barrage vessel, returned July 1945
December 1939Minesweeper, returned February 1946
February 1940Minesweeper, store carrier, returned January 1946
May 1940Towing duties, returned October 1945
September 1939Anti-submarine, returned December 1945
September 1939Minesweeper, returned September 1945
November 1939Auxiliary patrol, Minesweeper, returned September 1946
August 1939Armed boarding vessel, Anti-submarine, returned January 1946
September 1939Anti-submarine, lost 10 January 1940
September 1939Anti-submarine, returned February 1946
September 1939Anti-submarine, sold 1945
August 1939Armed boarding vessel, anti-submarine, lost 25 December 1943
September 1939Anti-submarine, mined north of Ireland 18 October 1940
September 1939Anti-submarine, United States Navy, mined in the Channel 15 June 1942
September 1939Anti-submarine, returned March 1945
September 1939Anti-submarine, returned September 1945
August 1939Anti submarine, lost 5 January 1940
September 1939Anti-submarine, returned March 1945
August 1939Anti submarine, returned September 1945
September 1939Anti-submarine, lost 27 April 1940
September 1939Armed boarding vessel, lost 12 January 1943
August 1939Anti-submarine, bombed off Dover 1945
August 1939Armed boarding vessel, mined off Portsmouth 21 January 1943
August 1939Anti-submarine, sold 1945
August 1939Armed boarding vessel, Anti-submarine, returned September 1944
August 1939Armed boarding vessel, Anti-submarine, returned December 1945
September 1939Armed boarding vessel, sunk by Italian submarine Nani off Gibraltar 5 October 1940
August 1939Armed boarding vessel, Anti-submarine, returned November 1945
August 1939Armed boarding vessel, returned November 1945
November 1939Auxiliary patrol, returned January 1940
1942De-gaussing, returned 1946
September 1939Anti-submarine, sold 1946
December 1940Water boat, returned 1946
March 1941Anti-submarine, returned October 1946
November 1940Minesweeper, returned March 1946
August 1940Balloon barrage vessel, returned September 1945
1940Auxiliary patrol, bombed off the Tyne 19 April 1941
December 1940Exam, returned 1946
October 1940Auxiliary patrol, United States Navy, returned July 1945
September 1939Minesweeper, returned 1946
July 1940Anti-submarine, lost in collision, North Sea 24 August 1941
September 1940Anti-submarine, bombed in the Mediterranean 2 June 1941
September 1940Anti-submarine, scuttled in Suda Bay May 1941
June 1941Minesweeper, returned May 1946
August 1939Minesweeper, sold April 1946
1939Minesweeper, Mined off the Lizard 10 July 1945
January 1940Boom defense vessel, returned 1946
July 1940Auxiliary patrol, returned September 1945

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