HMS Starling (U66)
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HMS Starling underway, in 1943
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| Name: | HMS Starling |
| Namesake: | Starling |
| Builder: | Fairfields |
| Laid down: | 21 October 1941 |
| Launched: | 14 October 1942 |
| Completed: | 1 April 1943 |
| Reclassified: | As a frigate in 1947 |
| Fate: | Broken up July 1965 |
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| Class and type: | Modified Black Swan-class sloop |
| Displacement: | 1,350 tons |
| Length: | 299 ft 6 in (91.29 m) |
| Beam: | 38 ft 6 in (11.73 m) |
| Draught: | 11 ft (3.4 m) |
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| Speed: | 20 knots (37 km/h) |
| Range: | 7,500 nmi (13,900 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h) |
| Complement: | 192 |
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| Service record | |
| Part of: | 2nd Support Group |
| Commanders: | Frederick John Walker |
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| Victories: | 15 U-boats (shared) |
HMS Starling, pennant number U66, was a Modified Black Swan-class sloop of the Royal Navy. She was built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company at Govan, Scotland, launched on 14 October 1942, and commissioned on 1 April 1943.
In the Battle of the Atlantic in World War II, Starling was the flagship of Captain Frederic John Walker's 2nd Support Group, a flotilla of six sloops not tied down to convoy protection, but free to hunt down U-boats wherever found. The other ships of the group were Cygnet, Kite, Wild Goose, Woodpecker, and Wren.
Starling was scrapped in 1965.
Starling participated in the sinking of fourteen U-boats:
During the war the Starling was credited, along with the sloops Amethyst, Peacock, Hart, and frigate Loch Craggie, with sinking the U-482 in the North Channel on 16 January 1945. The British Admiralty withdrew this credit in a post-war reassessment.
In 1953 she took part in the Fleet Review to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
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