page_title: HMS Evadne
section_title: Gibraltar
hierarchical_section_title: HMS Evadne / Service history / Gibraltar
caption_attribution_description: Marala
context_page_description: HMS Evadne was a converted yacht, commissioned as a warship by the Royal Navy during the Second World War. She survives today as the yacht Marala.
context_section_description: Although the United States Navy's USS Dynamic was assigned to patrolling the waters of Bermuda at the end of 1942, Evadne remained in Bermuda until also reallocated to the Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean, arriving on 12 March 1944 in Gibraltar, where she was based until hostilities ended. 
  On 19 February 1945, she badly damaged German U-boat U-300 with depth charges in the Strait of Gibraltar, in position 35°54′N 05°43′W. The U-boat was subsequently sunk on 22 February in the North Atlantic west of Cadiz, in position 36°29′N 08°20′W, by gunfire from the British minesweepers HMS Recruit and HMS Pincher. Nine of the 50 crew were lost.
  Evadne arrived back in Portsmouth on 6 September 1945 and was paid off the following month.
caption: Yacht Marala in Venice in 2012
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