HMS Kingston Chrysoberyl (FY 236)

Navy	The Royal Navy
Type	ASW Trawler
Class	[No specific class]
Pennant	FY 236
Built by	Cook, Welton & Gemmill (Beverley, U.K.)
Ordered
Laid down
Launched	9 Mar 1935
Commissioned	Nov 1939
End service
History	Completed on 7 May 1935. Taken over by the Admiralty on 18 September 1939. Displacement: 448 tons. Armament: 1 4" gun. Returned to her owner in March 1945. Scrapped at Bruges, Belgium 18 March 1955.

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	Commander	From	To
1	Skr. Robert Charles Green, RNR	21 Nov 1939	Oct 1940
2	T/Lt. John Handley Cooper, RNVR	Oct 1940	mid 1941
3	Skr. Robert Charles Green, DSC, RNR	mid 1941	late 1941
4	T/Skr. Lawrence Ford, RNR	late 1941	Mar 1942
5	Skr. Case James Albert Silom, RNR	Mar 1942	12 Jun 1942
6	A/Skr.Lt. Magnus Andrew Smith, RNR	12 Jun 1942	10 Sep 1943
7	A/Skr.Lt. Henry Rich, RNR	10 Sep 1943

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15 Jul 1942
HMS H 43 (Lt. A.R. Profit, DSC, RN) arrived at Plymouth where she conducted A/S exercises with HMS La Nantaise (Skr. S.J. Cory, RNR), HMS Kingston Chrysoberyl (A/Skr.Lt. M.A. Smith, RD, RNR), ORP Slazak (Lt.Cdr. R. Nalecz-Tyminski, ORP), HMS Ambrose Pare (Skr. J.W. Morris, RNR), HMS Olvina (Skr. J. Howson, RNR), HMS Cambridgeshire (T/Lt. H.F.B. Ashby, RNVR) and HMS Grimsby Town (Skr. W.A. Cormack, RNR). (1)

25 Feb 1943
HMS P 511 (Lt. C.R. Pelly, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Plymouth with HMS Grimsby Town (Skr. W.A. Cormack, RNR), HMS Kingston Chrysoberyl (Skr.Lt. M.A. Smith, RD, RNR) and HMS Ambrose Pare (Skr. J.W. Morris, RNR). (2)

2 May 1944
HMS Seraph (Lt. T. Russell-Walling, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Plymouth with HMS Lord Stanhope (A/Skr.Lt. S.G. Jinks, RNR) and HMS Kingston Chrysoberyl (A/Skr.Lt. H. Rich, RNR). (3)

Sources

ADM numbers indicate documents at the British National Archives at Kew, London.

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