Black Swan-class sloop
Royal Navy
Fourteen sloops for the RN were in the 1940 Supplementary War Programme. The first two were ordered from Denny, Dunbarton, on 9 January 1941, ten more were ordered on 27 March 1941 (two each from Cammell Laird, Scotts, Thornycroft, Yarrow and John Brown), and a final pair from Fairfield, Govan, on 18 July 1941.

Black Swan-class sloop

Section Title: Royal Navy
Table Section Text: Fourteen sloops for the RN were in the 1940 Supplementary War Programme. The first two were ordered from Denny, Dunbarton, on 9 January 1941, ten more were ordered on 27 March 1941 (two each from Cammell Laird, Scotts, Thornycroft, Yarrow and John Brown), and a final pair from Fairfield, Govan, on 18 July 1941.

Name	Pennant	Builder	Laid Down	Launched	Commissioned	Fate

Chanticleer	U05	Denny, Dunbarton	6 June 1941	24 September 1942	29 March 1943	Constructive total loss following torpedoing on 18 November 1943 by U-515 (Henke). Renamed Lusitania 31 December 1943 as a base ship, then broken up at Lisbon 1945.

Crane	U23	Denny, Dunbarton	13 June 1941	9 November 1942	10 May 1943	Broken up March 1965.

Cygnet	U38	Cammell Laird, Birkenhead	30 August 1941	28 July 1942	1 December 1942	Broken up 16 March 1956.

Kite	U87	Cammell Laird, Birkenhead	25 September 1941	13 October 1942	1 March 1943	Sunk by U-344 on 21 August 1944.

Lapwing	U62	Scotts, Greenock	17 December 1941	16 July 1943	21 March 1944	Sunk by U-968 on 20 March 1945 just outside Murmansk, USSR.

Lark	U11	Scotts, Greenock	5 May 1942	28 August 1943	10 April 1944	Constructive total loss following torpedoing by U-968 off Kola Inlet on 17 February 1945; salvaged by Soviet Navy and added as Neptun, finally broken up 1956.

Magpie	U82	Thornycroft, Woolston	30 December 1941	24 March 1943	30 August 1943	Broken up 12 July 1959.

Peacock	U96	Thornycroft, Woolston	29 November 1942	11 December 1943	10 May 1944	Broken up 7 May 1958.

Pheasant	U49	Yarrow, Scotstoun	17 March 1942	21 December 1942	12 May 1943	Broken up January 1963.

Redpole	U69	Yarrow, Scotstoun	18 May 1942	25 February 1943	24 June 1943	Broken up 20 November 1960.

Snipe	U20	Denny, Dunbarton	21 September 1944	20 December 1945	9 September 1946	Broken up 23 August 1960.

Sparrow	U71	Denny, Dunbarton	30 October 1944	18 February 1946	16 December 1946	Broken up 26 May 1958.

Starling	U66	Fairfield, Govan	21 October 1941	14 October 1942	1 April 1943	Broken up July 1965.

Woodcock	U90	Fairfield, Govan	21 October 1941	26 November 1942	29 May 1943	Sold for breaking up 28 November 1955.

Sentence(s)

Kite was sunk by U-344 on 21 August 1944.

final_sentence: Kite was sunk by U-344 on 21 August 1944.