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HMS Tyler (K 576)

Frigate of the Captain class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeFrigate
ClassCaptain 
PennantK 576 
Built byBethlehem-Hingham Shipyard Inc. (Hingham, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down6 Oct, 1943 
Launched20 Nov, 1943 
Commissioned14 Jan, 1944 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Assigned USN penant DE 567 but not named.

Returned to the USN on 12 November 1946. Scrapped.

Commanding Officer:
A/Lt.Cdr. C.H. Ranking, RN
14 January 1944 – still in command in July 1945 according to the Navy List

HMS Tyler is not listed in the October 1945 Navy List 

Former nameDE 567

Noteable events involving Tyler include:

21 Jan, 1945
HMS Tyler (A/Lt.Cdr. C.H. Ranking, RN) picks up the sole survivor from the Norwegian merchant Galatea that was torpedoed and sunk off Bardsey Island in the St.Georges Channel in position 52º40'N, 05º23'W by the German submarine U-1051.

27 Jan, 1945
The German submarine U-1172 was sunk in St George´s Channel, in position 52º24'N, 05º42'W, by depth charges from the British frigates HMS Tyler (A/Lt.Cdr. C.H. Ranking, RN), HMS Keats (T/A/Lt.Cdr. N.F. Israel, DSC, RNR) and HMS Bligh (Cdr. B.W. Taylor, RN). (see map)


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