HMT Svana

HMT "Svana" (FY 1707) was a minesweeper whaler of the Royal Navy during Second World War. [ [http://www.uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/12572.html Uboat.net] ]

She was riginally built for the South Georgia Co. Ltd. by Smiths Dock Co., Ltd. (South Bank-on-Tees, U.K.) and operated by Christian Salvesen & Co., Leith, UK. She was launched on 30 July 1930 with a displacement of 268 tons. She was taken over by the Admiralty in April 1940 and assigned to the Royal Naval Patrol Service. Under the command of Lt. John McDonald Ruttan [ [http://www.seawaves.com/newsletters/TDIH/january/27Jan.txt seawaves.com] ] , DSC, RCNVR she was bombed and sunk off Alexandria, Egypt on 8 April 1942 [Lenton, H.T.and Colledge, J.J. (1964). "British and Dominion Warships of World War II". Doubleday., London.] .

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