Frigate of the River class
| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Frigate |
| Class | River |
| Pennant | K 219 |
| Built by | Henry Robb Ltd. (Leith, U.K.): Plenty |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | 3 Sep, 1941 |
| Launched | 30 Jul, 1942 |
| Commissioned | 22 Dec, 1942 |
| End service | |
| Loss position | |
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| History | Sold to be broken up for scrap in September 1956.
Commanding Officers:
A/Cdr. Trevor George Payne Crick, DSC, RN
November 1942 – 27 September 1943
Bar to DSC awarded on 10 September 1943
T/A/Lt.Cdr. R.H. Marchington, MBE, RNVR
27 September 1943 – 31 August 1944
T/A/Lt.Cdr. Ronald Sidney Steel, RNR
31 August 1944 – still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List |
| Noteable events involving Ness include: 23 May, 1943
The Italian submarine Leonardo Da Vinci (offsite link) was sunk north-east of the Azores by the British destroyer HMS Active (Lt.Cdr. P.G. Merriman, RN ) and the British frigate HMS Ness (A/Cdr. T.G.P. Crick, DSC, RN). |
