HMS Chanticleer (U05)

HMS Chanticleer was a modified Black Swan-class sloop of the Royal Navy.

She was laid down by William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton on 6 June 1941, launched on 24 September 1942 and commissioned on 29 March 1943, with the pennant number U05.

Upon liberation from Operation Husky, the Chanticleer resumed the escort of the Atlantic convoys and her support functions.

On 15 November 1943, at 3:24 p.m., during the defence of the combined convoy MKS30 and SL139 against the attacks from U-Boats of the Wolfpack Schill 1 (activated from 16 to 22 November 1943 and composed of the following eight U-Boats: U-211, U-228, U-262, U-333, U-358, U-426, U-516 and U-600), HMS Chanticleer was hit by an acoustic torpedo (T5-GNAT) fired from U-515, 400 kilometres east-northeast of the island of San Miguel, Azores.

[2] The severely-damaged sloop was towed by HMS Salveda to Horta in the Azores, where it was declared a total loss.