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Wednesday, 8 June 2016

British ocean boarding vessel HMS Crispin sunk according to the Dutch newspaper Haagsche courant dated 21 February 1941

An item referred to an official statement of the British Admiralty reporting that the armed auxiliary ship Crispin of the Royal British Navy was sunk. She had a displacement of 5.051 tons and was built in 1935.(1)

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1. Completed by Cammell Laird&Co., Birkenhead, England in March 1935 for account of the Booth Steamship Company Limited, Liverpool, England. Acquired by the British Admiralty and converted into an ocean board vessel which was sunk by the German submarines U-107.