HMS Wild Goose (U45)

HMS Wild Goose in April 1943
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Wild Goose
Ordered	13 April 1940
Builder	Yarrow Shipbuilders
Yard number	1762
Laid down	28 January 1942
Launched	14 October 1942
Commissioned	11 March 1943
Decommissioned	1955
Identification	Pennant number U45/F45
Motto	Alert to evil
Honours and awards	Atlantic 1943–44 Biscay 1943 Normandy 1944 Arctic 1944 English Channel 1945
Fate	Scrapped 26 February 1956
Badge	On a field white, a Wild Goose in Flight Proper
General characteristics
Class and type	Black Swan-class sloop

HMS Wild Goose, pennant number U45, was a Black Swan-class sloop of the Royal Navy. She was one of several ships of that class that took part in the famous "six in one trip" in 1943 (in which six U-boats were sunk in one patrol).