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HMT ''Cambridgeshire'' (FY142) was a British Second World War anti-submarine trawler of the British Royal Navy, named after Cambridgeshire, an English county. The 443 ton trawler was laid down on 2 July 1935 at Smiths Dock Company of South Bank-on-Tees and completed by the end of the year. It was requisitioned by the Royal Navy in August 1939 shortly before the outbreak of the war and converted to an anti-submarine vessel, armed with a single 4 inch gun, machine guns and depth charges.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work= Uboat.net )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 HMS ''Cambridgeshire'' )〕 On 17 June 1940, the vessel took part in the rescue of passengers and crew from the bombing of RMS ''Lancastria'' in the estuary of the River Loire during Operation Ariel. Using the ship's boat, many survivors were picked-up from the water while being bombed and machine gunned by German aircraft. The ''Cambridgeshire''s Lewis gunners claimed to have shot down one of them. An estimated 800 were rescued by the trawler;〔The Sinking of the Lancastria, Jonathan Fenby, Simon & Schuster UK Ltd 2005 ISBN 0-7434-8943-8 p.175〕 one of them was Lord Inverclyde.〔 Three members of the ''Cambridgeshire's'' crew were decorated for their conduct.〔The Sinking of the Lancastria, Jonathan Fenby, Simon & Schuster UK Ltd 2005 ISBN 0-7434-8943-8 p.242〕 Later that night, ''Cambridgeshire'' was ordered to evacuate the commander of the British Expeditionary Force, Lieutenant-General Alan Brooke and his staff to England, because the destroyer allocated was no longer available.〔War Diaries 1939-1945. Alanbrooke, Field Marshal Lord (2001). Danchev, Alex; Todman, Daniel. eds. Phoenix Press. ISBN 1-84212-526-5 Entry for 17 June 1940〕 There were no rafts or life jackets onboard following the rescue work and the decks were covered in bunker oil and discarded clothing. General Brooke had to clean the oil from his cabin.〔The Sinking of the Lancastria, Jonathan Fenby, Simon & Schuster UK Ltd 2005 ISBN 0-7434-8943-8 pp.198-199〕 She left St Nazaire at 3am on 18 June and arrived in Plymouth late on the afternoon of the following day, having acted as an escort to a convoy of evacuation ships en route.〔The Sinking of the Lancastria, Jonathan Fenby, Simon & Schuster UK Ltd 2005 ISBN 0-7434-8943-8 p.220〕 In June 1944, ''Cambridgeshire'' took part in Operation Neptune, the naval element of the Normandy Landings.〔Gerald Toghill, Royal Navy Trawlers, Part Two: Requisitioned Vessels, Maritime Books Ltd, 2004 (p.70)〕 She was sold in 1945, returning to commercial fishing, and was renamed ''Kingston Sapphire'' in 1947. The trawler was scrapped at Bruges, Belgium in October 1954. ==See also== * for other ships of a similar name *Royal Naval Patrol Service 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「HMT Cambridgeshire (FY142)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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