Navy | The Royal Navy |
Type | Minelayer |
Class | Auxiliary minelayers |
Pennant | M 19 |
Built by | Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd. (Wallsend-on-Tyne, U.K.) |
Ordered | |
Laid down | |
Launched | 30 Jul 1934 |
Commissioned | 4 Sep 1939 |
End service | 1940 |
History | Completed as merchantile ferry Hampton Ferry in November 1934 To the Ministery of War Transport (MoWT) in 1940. |
Commands listed for HMS Hampton (M 19)
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Commander | From | To | |
1 | Capt. (retired) George Herbert Freyberg, OBE, RN | 1 Sep 1939 | mid 1940 |
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