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HMS Ameer (D 01)

Escort Carrier of the Ameer class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeEscort Carrier
ClassAmeer 
PennantD 01 
Built bySeattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. (Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down18 Jul, 1942 
Launched18 Oct, 1942 
Commissioned20 Jul, 1943 
End service17 Jan, 1946 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned and transferred to the R.N. as HMS Ameer on 19 July 1943.
Commissioned in R.N. service on 20 July 1943.
Returned to the U.S.N. on 17 January 1946.
Stricken on 20 March 1946.
Sold into merchantile service on 17 September 1946 being renamed Robin Kirk.
Scrapped in Taiwan in 1969.

Commanding Officers:
Capt. Gerald Douglas Yates, RN
May 1943 – 9 July 1944

Capt. John Hugh Lewes, OBE, RN (retired)
9 July 1944 – May 1945

Cdr. Peter Douglas Herbert Raymond Pelly, DSO, RN
May 1945 - still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List
Promoted to A/Capt. on ??? 

Former nameUSS Baffins

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