User:Lyndaship/sandbox

HMS Crane, pennant number U23, was a Modified Black Swan-class sloop of the Royal Navy.

Construction
Crane was ordered on 9 January 1941 under the 1940 Supplementary War Building Programme; she was laid down by Denny at Dunbarton, Scotland, on 21 October 1941. She was launched on 9 November 1942, and commissioned on 10 May 1943.