HMS Fairy (J403), an
Auk-classminesweeper built by Associated Shipbuilders,
Seattle, launched on 5 April 1943, and loaned to the Royal Navy under
Lend-Lease. Commissioned on 24 March 1944, she was returned to the United States Navy on 13 December 1946.
A dockyard tug Fairy was sold in an Admiralty auction at Portsmouth on 7 October 1913 to John Deheer Ltd of Hull.[1]
References
^"Battleships Sold by Auction". Pall Mall Gazette. No. 15113. London: The British Newspaper Archive (subscription). 7 October 1913. p. 1. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
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