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Rion / Noir
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Armed (anti-submarine) yacht

Length 147 feet
Beam 23 feet
Draft 12 feet
Tonnage 298 gross
Engines Twin Deutz (650 BHP each)
Speed 10 knots
Fuel capacity 6,000 gallons
Crew 10
   
Builder (hull) Camper & Nicholson (Southampton)
Builder (engine) Gardner (Patricroft)
Completed 07.1928
Requisitioned 09.1939
Fate Renamed HMS Noir (between April and June 1944). For disposal (06.1945). Decommissioned (10.1945). Returned to owner (16.09.1947). Still afloat as M/Y Zein (2005).

 

Officers    
Commanding Officer
28.09.1939 - (04.1940)
T/Lt.G.K. Hill, RNVR
 
11.09.1940 - (02.1941)
Lt.Cdr. G.R. Pretor-Pinney, RN (retd)
 
23.06.1942 - (02.1943)
Lt. E.E. Clifton, RN
 
22.11.1943 - (06.1944)
A/T/Lt.Cdr. L.G. Prowse, RN
First Lieutenant
01.10.1939 - (04.1940)
T/S.Lt. R.L. Green, RNR
 
05.10.1940 - (02.1941)
T/Lt. R.L. Green, RNR
 
11.06.1941 - (08.1942)
T/Lt. R.L. Green, RNR
Others
 
?
28.09.1939 - (04.1940)
Prob. T/S.Lt. W.J. Raven, RNVR
?
28.09.1939 - (02.1941)
T/Lt. G.K. Hill, RNVR
?
05.07.1941 - (08.1942)
T/Lt. J.H. Barrett, RNVR
?
18.09.1940 - (02.1941)
S.Lt. J.P.C. Peek, RCNVR
?
26.01.1942 - (08.1943)
T/S.Lt. R.C. Nixon, RNVR
?
04.09.1942 - (04.1944)
T/S.Lt. L.R. Barnett-Smith, RNVR
? [later First Lieutenant]
10.02.1943 - (04.1946)
T/S.Lt. | T/Lt. D.E. Doran, RNVR [highest in rank according to Navy List from July 1945 till April 1946]
?
27.09.1943 - (04.1944)
T/S.Lt. R. le R. White, RNVR
?
24.08.1940 - (02.1941)
Prob. T/S.Lt. G.A. Walsh, RNVR
?
27.09.1943 - (04.1946)
T/A/S.Lt. | T/S.Lt. A.McD. Harvie, RNVR
?
08.10.1943 - (04.1944)
T/A/S.Lt. B. Blease, RNVR
?
01.04.1944 - (04.1946)
T/A/S.Lt. L.G. Rowe, RNVR
?
28.02.1941 - (04.1946)
A/T/Lt. (E) J.H. Stobie, RNVR [highest in rank according to Navy Lists from June till Oct. 1943]
?
25.10.1940 - (02.1941)
T/S.Lt. (E) J.E. Marshall, RNVR
?
29.08.1940 - (02.1941)
T/S.Lt. (E) S.A. Headon, RNVR
?
12.12.1940 - (02.1941)
T/S.Lt. (E) J.A. Smith, RNVR
?
28.09.1940 - (02.1941)
Prob. T/Midsh. J.S.G. Fletcher, RNVR