HMS Dasher (D37)

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HMS Dasher was a British Royal Navy aircraft carrier, of the Avenger class of converted merchant vessels, and one of the shortest-lived escort carriers.

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HMS Dasher (D37): Greenock
The death toll, 379 out of 528 crewmen, despite rapid response and assistance from ships and rescue craft from Brodick and Lamlash on the Isle of Arran and from Ardrossan and Greenock on the Scottish mainland, was amongst the highest in British home waters.
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HMS Dasher (D37): William Martin (Royal Marines officer)
However, in 2004 John and Noreen Steele suggested that Montagu resolved these objections by using the body of a serviceman, and pointed to the accidental loss of HMS Dasher in the River Clyde in March 1943, and the loss of 349 of her crew.
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