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HMS Holmes (K 581)

Frigate of the Captain class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeFrigate
ClassCaptain 
PennantK 581 
Built byBethlehem-Hingham Shipyard Inc. (Hingham, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down27 Oct, 1943 
Launched19 Dec, 1943 
Commissioned31 Jan, 1944 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Assigned USN penant DE 572 but not named.

Returned to the USN on 3 December 1945. Sold for scrap in October 1947.

Commanding Officers:
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Lt. D.G.B. Dumas, RN
March 1944 – 10 September 1944

T/A/Lt.Cdr. P.S. Boyle, RNVR
10 September 1944 – 18 September 1945

A/Lt.Cdr. Dudley Leslie Davenport, RN
18 September 1945 – still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List 

Former nameDE 572

Noteable events involving Holmes include:

8 Mar, 1945
The British merchant Lornaston is torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-275 in the English Channel in position 50º35'N, 00º30'W. The British frigate HMS Holmes (T/A/Lt.Cdr. P.S. Boyle, RNVR) and the British tug HMS Palencia together pick up 48 survivors.


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