| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | ASW Trawler |
| Class | Dance |
| Pennant | T 107 |
| Built by | Cochrane & Sons shipbuilders Ltd. (Selby, U.K.) : Amos & Smith |
| Ordered | 9 Sep 1939 |
| Laid down | 24 Oct 1939 |
| Launched | 26 Mar 1940 |
| Commissioned | 11 Jul 1940 |
| End service | |
| History | Sold in 1946. |
Commands listed for HMS Fandango (T 107)
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| Commander | From | To | |
| 1 | T/Lt. Frank Clifford Hopkins, RNR | 3 Jul 1940 | 4 Nov 1940 |
| 2 | T/Lt. George Edwin Mabbott, RNVR | 4 Nov 1940 | 20 Jun 1941 |
| 3 | Lt. John Anthony Thornton Maishman, RNR | 20 Jun 1941 | Jan 1942 |
| 4 | T/Lt. Alfred Leslie Jasper, RNVR | Jan 1942 | 1 Oct 1942 |
| 5 | T/Lt. Arthur Graham Fisher, RNR | 1 Oct 1942 | 3 Apr 1944 |
| 6 | T/Lt. Bernard Hugh Firman, RNVR | 3 Apr 1944 | late 1945 |
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Notable events involving Fandango include:
25 Jul 1940
HrMs O 9 (Lt. H.A.W. Goossens, RNN) participated in A/S exercises off Tobermory with HMS Fandango (T/Lt. F.C. Hopkins, RNR). (1)
27 Jul 1940
HrMs O 9 (Lt. H.A.W. Goossens, RNN) participated in A/S exercises off Tobermory with HMS Bluebell (Lt.Cdr. R.E. Sherwood, RNR) and HMS Fandango (T/Lt. F.C. Hopkins, RNR). (1)
31 Jul 1940
HrMs O 9 (Lt. H.A.W. Goossens, RNN) participated in A/S exercises off Tobermory with HMS Bluebell (Lt.Cdr. R.E. Sherwood, RNR) and HMS Fandango (T/Lt. F.C. Hopkins, RNR). (1)
1 Aug 1940
HrMs O 9 (Lt. H.A.W. Goossens, RNN) participated in A/S exercises off Tobermory with HMS Godetia (Lt.Cdr. G.V. Legassick, RNR), HMS Primrose (Lt.Cdr. C.B. Sanders, RNVR) and HMS Fandango (T/Lt. F.C. Hopkins, RNR). (1)
2 Aug 1940
HrMs O 9 (Lt. H.A.W. Goossens, RNN) participated in A/S exercises off Tobermory with HMS Bluebell (Lt.Cdr. R.E. Sherwood, RNR), HMS Clematis (Cdr. Y.M. Cleeves, DSC, RD, RNR) and HMS Fandango (T/Lt. F.C. Hopkins, RNR). (1)
21 Sep 1940
The British tanker Invershannon is torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat U-99 480 nautical miles west of Bloody Foreland in position 55°40'N, 22°04'W. 17 survivors were later picked up by the British sloop HMS Flamingo (Cdr. J.H. Huntley, RN) and 15 survivors were picked up by the British ASW trawler HMS Fandango (T/Lt. F.C. Hopkins, RNVR).
27 Oct 1941
HMS Severn (Lt.Cdr. A.N.G. Campbell, RN) departed Freetown for a few days of exercises together with the destroyer HMS Vansittart (Lt.Cdr. R.L.S. Gaisford, RN), the corvettes HMS Armeria (T/Lt. H.N. Russell, RNR), HMS Cyclamen (Lt. H.N. Lawson, RNR), HMS Aster (Lt.Cdr. E. Hewitt, RD, RNR), the A/S trawlers HMS Fandango (Lt. J.A.T. Maishman, RNR), HMS Morris Dance (Lt. A. Bruce, RCNVR) and several ML's. (2)
24 Nov 1941
HMS Severn (Lt.Cdr. A.N.G. Campbell, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Freetown together with HMS Surprise (Cdr.(Retd.) L.C. Ansdell, RN) and HMS Fandango (Lt. J.A.T. Maishman, RNR). (3)
30 May 1943
HMS Fandango (T/Lt. A.G. Fisher, RNR) picks up 63 survivors from the American merchant Flora MacDonald that was torpedoed and heavily damaged by German U-boat U-126 south of Freetown in position 07°15'N, 13°20'W.
Sources
- File 2.12.03.6365 (Dutch Archives, The Hague, Netherlands)
- ADM 173/16987
- ADM 173/16988
ADM numbers indicate documents at the British National Archives at Kew, London.