Frigate of the River class
Photo courtesy of Dave Grabham
| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Frigate |
| Class | River |
| Pennant | K 255 |
| Built by | Blyth Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. Ltd. (Blyth, U.K.) : Hawthorn Leslie & Co. (Hebburn-on-Tyne, U.K.) and Fletcher |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | 6 Nov, 1941 |
| Launched | 7 Dec, 1942 |
| Commissioned | 2 Sep, 1943 |
| End service | |
| Loss position | |
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| History | Scrapped 7 July 1961.
Commanding Officer:
Lt.Cdr. Edmund Fleetwood Aikman, RNR
16 August 1943 - still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List
RD awarded on 19 February 1945 |
| Noteable events involving Ballinderry include: 10 Jan, 1945
HMS Ballinderry (Lt.Cdr. E.F. Aikman, RNR) and HMS Kilbernie (Lt. C.T. Letts, RNVR) together pick up 51 survivors from the British merchant Blackheath that was torpedoed and damaged by the German submarine U-870 west of Gibraltar in position 35º49'N, 06º03'W. |
