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HMS Sandwich (L12)
HMS ''Sandwich'' (L12) was a built by Hawthorne Leslie, Newcastle. After a decade of peacetime service on the China Station, she escorted Atlantic convoys through World War II.
==War Service==
''Sandwich'' was based at Hong Kong when war was declared, and patrolled the Tsushima Strait for German merchant shipping before sailing east in November 1939 to return to the United Kingdom in December with convoy HG 11. She escorted convoys between Liverpool and Gibraltar until May 1940 and then coastal and Western Approaches convoys rescuing survivors from the sunken freighters ''King Idwal'' and ''Anten'' of convoy OB 244 in November 1940.
''Sandwich'' began refit at Tilbury in December and resumed convoy escort duties in April 1941 assigned to the 43rd Escort Group. Type 271 radar was installed during refit at Belfast from January through March 1942, and the original .50 caliber anti-aircraft machine guns were replaced with Oerlikon 20 mm cannon during a shorter refit in October. ''Sandwich'' was credited with sinking U-213 while escorting convoy OS 35, and then escorted convoys in support of Operation Torch until refit on the River Tyne from February through July 1943.〔
Upon completion of trials and workup, ''Sandwich'' escorted convoys between Liverpool and Sierra Leone as part of the 38th Escort Group from August 1943 until retirement in June 1944. Planned refit at Brindisi was not completed, and the ship was towed to Bizerte in 1945. She was sold there in 1946 for possible mercantile service, but scrapped after conversion was abandoned.〔
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