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HMS Bentley (K 465)

Frigate of the Captain class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeFrigate
ClassCaptain 
PennantK 465 
Built byBethlehem-Hingham Shipyard Inc. (Hingham, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down26 Apr, 1943 
Launched17 Jul, 1943 
Commissioned13 Oct, 1943 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Returned to the USN on 5 November 1945. Stricken on 19 December 1945 and scrapped.

Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. P.C. Hopkins, RN
16 August 1943 – May 1944

Lt.Cdr. Eric George May, DSC, RN
May 1944 – 3 December 1944

Lt. F.L. Boyer, RN
3 December 1944 – January 1945

Lt.Cdr. Eric George May, DSC, RN
January 1945 – September 1945

T/Lt. J.H. Hampton, RNVR
September 1945 – still listed in the October 1945 Navy List 

Former nameUSS Ebert DE 74

Noteable events involving Bentley include:

27 Apr, 1944
HMS Affleck (A/Cdr. C. Gwinner, DSO, DSC, RN (retired)) and HMS Bentley (Lt.Cdr. P.C. Hopkins, RN) together pick up 54 survivors from the Panamanian merchant Colin that was torpedoed and sunk the previous day in the North Atlantic in position 54º16'N, 31º58'W by the German submarine U-859.


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