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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country= | Ship flag= | Ship class=Kingfisher-class sloop | Ship name=HMS Shearwater | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=J. Samuel White, Cowes | Ship laid down=15 August 1938 | Ship launched=18 April 1939 | Ship christened= | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned=7 September 1939 | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified= | Ship refit= | Ship captured= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship fate=Sold for scrapping on 21 April 1947 | Ship status= | Ship homeport=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Ship displacement=*580 tons | Ship tons burthen= | 234|ft|m|abbr=on}} | 26|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} | 6|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} | Ship draft= | Ship propulsion=*Two x Admiralty 3-drum water-tube boilers- Parsons geared steam turbines
- Two shafts
- 3,600 shp
| Ship speed=20 knots | Ship range=160 tons oil | Ship endurance= | Ship test depth= | Ship boats= | Ship capacity= | Ship complement=60 | Ship time to activate= | Ship sensors= | Ship EW= | Ship armament=- 1 × QF {{convert|4|in|mm|adj=on}} Mark V L/45 gun, mount HA Mk.III
- 4 × QF .5 in Mark III Vickers machine guns, quad mount HA Mk.III
| Ship armour= | Ship armor= | Ship aircraft= | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship honours= | Ship notes=Pennant number L39 (later K39)
}} | HMS Shearwater was a Kingfisher-class sloop of the Royal Navy. Shearwater was laid down at J. Samuel White, Cowes on 15 August 1938. She was launched on 18 April 1939 and commissioned on 7 September 1939. She served during the Second World War and was adopted by Farnborough Urban District Council during Warship Week in 1942. She survived the War and sold for scrapping on 21 April 1947. She was broken up by Stockton Ship & Salvage Company. She was the fictional HMS Winger in Nicholas Monsarrat's book 'Corvette Command' of the Three Corvettes series. This vessel was also the very first sloop to be commanded by an RNVR officer from June 1944 until July 1945, Desmond Henry Cope, DSC(1943).[1] Publications- {{Colledge}}
- HMS Shearwater at Uboat.net
- Monsarrat, Nicholas, Corvette Command, Cassell, 1944
References1. ^http://www.unithistories.com
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