Minesweepers WW2

[curiousgeorge1]

I wonder if anyone can provide additional details to these ship deployments. I am new to military records.

I know at least some of these were shore bases.

Any additional info would be greatly appreciated.

[KGarrad]

HMS Pembroke was the name given to a shore barracks at Chatham. It was commissioned in 1878, moved ashore in 1903 and was paid off in 1983.

HMS Europa was a Royal Navy Shore establishment active between 1939 and 1946 during World War II as the central depot for the Royal Naval Patrol Service.

HMS Gaston Riviere was a trawler, Taken over by the Admiralty in August 1941. Returned to her owner in 1946.

HMS Paris  was the third ship of four Courbet-class battleships, the first dreadnoughts built for the French Navy. As part of Operation Catapult, she was seized in Plymouth by British forces on 3 July. She was used as a depot ship and barracks ship there by the Royal and Polish Navies for the rest of the war. Returned to the French in July 1945.

HMS Harrier was a minesweeper.

HMS Gleaner was a minesweeper.

[curiousgeorge1]

Thanks for this

[KGarrad]

Google search is your friend!

[curiousgeorge1]

I have been searching our ‘friend’.

I was wondering if the collective wisdom of the RC community could flesh out the bare bones of facts.