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Janes fighting ships WW2

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Megs Dicky Island

Megs Dicky Island Report 27 Aug 2008 18:32

Hi does anyone know about Janes fighting ships, have googled it but all I get are HMS ships. I have a photo dated January 1945, the ship has FY.185 on it.

Can anyone help please.

Thanks meg

Heather

Heather Report 27 Aug 2008 18:37

Janes is a military publication. I suppose you know that and the site?

http://jfs.janes.com/public/jfs/index.shtml

Staffs Col

Staffs Col Report 27 Aug 2008 19:05

FY185 was a wartime naval trawler

Megs Dicky Island

Megs Dicky Island Report 27 Aug 2008 19:06

Thanks Heather

Thanks Staffordshire Col, is there any way I can find out what happened to it?

Staffs Col

Staffs Col Report 27 Aug 2008 19:10

Will have a look through my records when I get home later this evening

Megs Dicky Island

Megs Dicky Island Report 27 Aug 2008 19:24

Thank you

Staffs Col

Staffs Col Report 27 Aug 2008 23:21

SUCCESS!!!

FY185 was also known as HMS Vascama

Navy The Royal Navy
Type ASW Trawler (Anti Submarine Warfare)
Pennant FY 185
Built by Cochrane & Sons Shipbuilders Ltd. (Selby, U.K.)
Launched 7 Mar, 1935
Commissioned Sep, 1939
History Completed in April 1935.
Taken over by the Admiralty in September 1939.
Displacement: 447 tons.
Armament: 1 4" gun.
Sold in July 1945.
Scrapped at Ghent, Belgium in 1963

Noteable events involving Vascama include:
25 Aug, 1941
The German submarine U-452 was sunk in the North Sea south-east of Iceland, in position 61º30'N, 15º30'W, by depth charges from the British A/S trawler HMS Vascama and depth charges from a British Catalina aircraft

Megs Dicky Island

Megs Dicky Island Report 27 Aug 2008 23:32

Wow

Thanks Col, my g uncle will be delighted with the information you have given me, he sailed on that ship from 1942 - 1945.