:HMS Chanticleer (U05)
{{short description|Modified Black Swan-class sloop}}
{{other ships|HMS Chanticleer}}
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}} {{Infobox ship image | Ship image = File:HMS Chanticleer 1943 IWM FL 7853.jpg | Ship caption = HMS Chanticleer at the Clyde in 1943. }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header = | Ship country = United Kingdom | Ship flag = {{shipboxflag|United Kingdom|naval}} | Ship name = Chanticleer | Ship namesake = Chanticleer | Ship ordered = 9 January 1941 | Ship awarded = | Ship builder = William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton | Ship laid down = 6 June 1941 | Ship launched = 24 September 1942 | Ship christened = | Ship acquired = | Ship commissioned = 29 March 1943 | Ship recommissioned = | Ship decommissioned = | Ship in service = | Ship out of service = | Ship renamed = *Hesperides, 1943
| Ship reclassified = | Ship refit = | Ship captured = | Ship struck = | Ship reinstated = | Ship identification = Pennant number: U05 | Ship fate = Scrapped in 1946 | Ship homeport = | Ship motto = Vigil antibus Non Dormientibus ("To watchers not to sleepers") | Ship nickname = | Ship honours = | Ship notes = }} {{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header = | Header caption = | Ship class = Modified Black Swan-class sloop | Ship displacement = 1,350 tons | Ship length = {{convert|283|ft|m|abbr=on}} | Ship beam = {{convert|38.5|ft|m|abbr=on}} | Ship draught = | Ship draft = | Ship propulsion = *Geared turbines
| Ship speed = {{convert|20|kn|km/h}} at {{convert|4,300|hp|abbr=on}} | Ship range = | Ship endurance = | Ship test depth = | Ship boats = | Ship capacity = | Ship complement = 192 men + 1 Cat | Ship time to activate = | Ship sensors = | Ship EW = | Ship armament = *6 × QF 4 in Mk XVI anti-aircraft guns
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HMS Chanticleer was a modified Black Swan-class sloop of the Royal Navy. She was laid down by William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton on 6 June 1941, launched on 24 September 1942 and commissioned on 29 March 1943, with the pennant number U05.{{Cite web|title=HMS Chanticleer (U 05) (British Sloop) - Ships hit by German U-boats during WWII - uboat.net|url=https://uboat.net/allies/merchants/ship/3131.html|access-date=2020-10-20|website=uboat.net}}
Construction and career
After trials and operational commissioning at Tobermory, in May 1943, the Chanticleer was assigned to the 7th Escort Group based at Greenock for convoy escort missions in the Atlantic.
In June 1943, she took part in various missions to protect convoys such as a floating dock towed from Oban to Malta by the passage through Gibraltar or the KMF18 convoy escort between Gibraltar and the United Kingdom.
In July 1943, the Chanticleer accompanied the KMF19 convoy during the passage through Beach Head, in Sicily, then joined the Eastern Support Force to support the Allied landings, Operation Husky. Upon liberation from Operation Husky, the Chanticleer resumed the escort of the Atlantic convoys and her support functions.
On 15 November 1943, at 3:24 p.m., during the defence of the combined convoy MKS30 and SL139 against the attacks from U-Boats of the Wolfpack Schill 1 (activated from 16 to 22 November 1943 and composed of the following eight U-Boats: U-211, U-228, U-262, U-333, U-358, U-426, U-516 and U-600), HMS Chanticleer was hit by an acoustic torpedo (T5-GNAT) fired from U-515, 400 kilometres east-northeast of the island of San Miguel, Azores. 29 men died. The severely-damaged sloop was towed by HMS Salveda to Horta in the Azores, where it was declared a total loss.
The ship was then transformed into a hulk and used as a base ship for Royal Navy personnel serving in Horta and was renamed Hesperides. On 31 December 1943, her name was changed to Lusitania II,{{cite book |editor1-last=Carruthers |editor1-first=Bob |title=The U-boat War in the Atlantic - Vol.3: 1944-1945 |date=2013 |publisher=Pen & Sword |location=Barnsley |isbn=978-1-78159-161-1 |page=96 note |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LXepBQAAQBAJ&dq=%22hms+chanticleer%22&pg=PA96 |access-date=7 March 2024}} but the ship continued to be used as a base ship for the remainder of the European War when it was deactivated again. She was sold for dismantling in Lisbon in 1946.{{Cite web|title=HMS Chanticleer, sloop|url=https://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chrono-18SL-HMS_Chanticleer.htm|access-date=2020-10-20|website=www.naval-history.net}}
References
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Further reading
- [https://uboat.net/allies/merchants/crews/ship3131.html HMS Chanticleer’s crewlist]
- {{Cite book|last=Blackman|first=Raymond V. B.|title=Jane's Fighting Ships 1971–72|publisher=Sampson Low, Marston & Company|year=1971|isbn=0-354-00096-9|location=London}}
- {{Cite book|last=Blair|first=Clay Gardiner|title=Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunted 1942–1945|publisher=Modern Library|year=2000|isbn=0-679-64033-9|location=New York}}
- {{Cite book|last=Gardiner|first=Robert Gardiner|title=Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922-1946|publisher=Conway Maritime Press|year=1980|isbn=0-85177-146-7|pages=456}}
- {{Cite book|last=Gardiner|first=Robert Gardiner|title=Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947-1995|publisher=US Naval Institute Press|year=1996|isbn=1-55750-132-7|pages=675}}
- {{Cite Colledge2006}}
- {{cite book|last=Hague|first=Arnold|title=Sloops: A History of the 71 Sloops Built in Britain and Australia for the British, Australian and Indian Navies 1926–1946|year=1993|publisher=World Ship Society|location=Kendal, England|isbn=0-905617-67-3}}
{{Black Swan class sloop}}
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Category:Black Swan-class sloops
Category:World War II sloops of the United Kingdom
Category:Sloops of the United Kingdom