Dates: 1943 - 1958

Modified BLACK SWAN-Class Sloop ordered from Fairfield SB, Govan 18th July 1941 and laid down as Job No 11701 (Yard No 701)on 21st October that year. She was launched on 14th October 1942 as the 9th RN ship to bear the name, introduced in 1801 for a Gun-Brig. Build was completed on 1st April 1943. This ship was made famous by the leadership and anti-submarine expertise of Captain F J Walker, RN whose name will always be associated with the Battle of the Atlantic as recorded in FIGHTING CAPTAIN by A. Burn. Her war service and successes were unrivalled. After a successful WARSHIP WEEK National Savings campaign in March 1942 the ship had been adopted by the civil community of Runcorn Rural District, then in Lancashire

Badge : On a Field Green, a Starling proper grasping in its beak a worm all proper.

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"Sorry. Of course, I should have written HMS Stork and HMS Starling. Clearly, I"m a Canuck, as my dad was."

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