Allied Warships

HMS Pol IV (FY 702)

MS Whaler

Navy	The Royal Navy
Type	MS Whaler
Class	[No specific class]
Pennant	FY 702
Built by	Nylands Værksted (Oslo, Norway)
Ordered
Laid down
Launched
Commissioned	Apr 1941
End service
History	Completed on 18 August 1926. Norwegian whaler of Hvalfangerselskap Polaris A/S (Melsom & Melsom) Larvik, Norway taken over by the Admiralty in April 1941. Displacement: 240 tons. Renamed HMS Tromøy in 1942 and manned by a Norwegian crew. Renamed HMS Cloudburst in August 1944 and manned by a British crew. Returned to owner in 1946.

Commands listed for HMS Pol IV (FY 702)

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Lt. Robert McAlister, RNR	Aug 1944	11 Jan 1945
2	T/Lt. John George Armitage Curtis, RNVR	11 Jan 1945	mid 1945
3	T/Lt. John Alexander Le Sueur, SANF(V)	mid 1944	late 1944

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