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HMS ''Palomares'' was originally MV ''Palomares'', built by William Doxford & Sons, Sunderland yard in 1937 and sailed as a merchant fruit carrier ship (13.5 knot banana boat) for service on the MacAndrews Line in January 1938 with their Spanish service. She was purchased by the British Admiralty in 1940, as these fruit ships were considered to be fast and manoeuvrable. In 1941 the Admiralty converted her and seven others to Anti-aircraft Artillery ships and eventually Fighter Direction Ships (seagoing Anti Aircraft Auxiliaries). Most likely the conversion took place at Fairfields yard in Govan on the Clyde with her sister ship HMS Pozarica. ==Noted operations== In March 1942, she sailed with ''Pozarica'', and the corvettes , , and HMS ''Dianella'' for the port of Seyðisfjörður. In June 1942, she sailed as an escort in the infamous Convoy PQ-17, where 25 out 36 ships were lost to the enemy, while working around Murmansk and Archangel.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cookstownwardead.co.uk/persondepth.asp?cas_id=414 )〕 In November 1942, HMS ''Palomares'' took part in the Operation Torch landings in Algiers as an Anti Aircraft ship. The ship left Gibraltar on the 3rd and arriving on the 8th. However the next day ''Palomares'' was hit by a bomb suffering large number of casualties, engulfed in flames her steering gear was put out of action. Deceased seamen were transferred to the corvette for burial at sea and her steering gear was repaired by the 10th.〔 In September 1943, during the Salerno landings of Italy on the 9th, ''Palomares'' was a Fighter Direction ship, directing fighter planes with her radar system. In January 1944, ''Palomares'' again served as a Fighter Direction ship during the Anzio landings. Arriving at the beachhead on the 22nd, she struck a mine and was towed back to Naples by the tugs ''Edenshaw'' and ''Evea''. In September 1945, ''Palomares'' was to have participated in the Malay landing but couldn't as fire damaged her engine room. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Palomares」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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