Frigate of the River class
| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Frigate |
| Class | River |
| Pennant | K 637 |
| Built by | Charles Hill & Sons Ltd. (Bristol, U.K.) : Bellis & Morcom |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | 14 Apr, 1943 |
| Launched | 11 Sep, 1943 |
| Commissioned | 7 Jan, 1944 |
| End service | |
| Loss position | |
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| History | Scrapped in June 1957.
Commanding Officers:
T/Lt.Cdr. Aislabie Harrison, RNR
1 November 1943 – 23 May 1944
Cdr. Gerald Anthony Gore Ormsby, DSC, RN
23 May 1944 – 9 June 1945
DSO awarded on 6 June 1944
A/Lt.Cdr. Michael Elijah Impey, DSO, DSC and Bar, RN
9 June 1945 – still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List |
| Noteable events involving Taff include: 1 Sep, 1944
The British merchant Troilus is torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-859 about 300 nautical miles north-east of Socotra Island in position 14º10'N, 61º04'E. Later HMS Nadder (T/A/Lt.Cdr. P.E. Kitto, RNR) and HMS Taff (Cdr. G.A.G. Ormsby, DSO, DSC, RN) together pick up 95 survivors and landed them at Aden on 10 September. |
