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HMS Affleck (K 362)

Frigate of the Captain class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeFrigate
ClassCaptain 
PennantK 362 
Built byBethlehem-Hingham Shipyard Inc. (Hingham, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down5 Apr, 1943 
Launched30 Jun, 1943 
Commissioned17 Sep, 1943 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

At 14.14 hours on 26 December, 1944, U-486 fired three Gnats at the 1st Escort Group on patrol off Cherbourg and observed hits after 1 minute 39 seconds and 1 minute 41 seconds and heard a third detonation after 7 minutes. Meyer claimed two destroyers sunk and a corvette damaged. In fact the frigates HMS Affleck (Cdr. Clive Gwinner, DSO and Bar, DSC, RN (retired)) and the HMS Capel (Lt. B.G. Heslop, DSC, RN) were hit. The latter sank and the other was towed to port, but declared a total loss.

After the war the HMS Affleck returned to the US Navy in Britain, where she was sold on 24 January 1947 and served as mercantile hulk Nostra Senora de la Luz until 1970, when she was broken up.

Commanding Officers:
Lt. E.I. Pilditch, RN
29 July 1943 – 31 January 1944

A/Cdr. Clive Gwinner, DSO, RN (retired)
31 January 1944 >
Promoted to Cdr. on 30 June 1944
DSC awarded on 22 February 1944
Bar to DSO awarded on 6 June 1944

HMS Affleck is not listed as active unit in the July 1945 Navy List 


Noteable events involving Affleck include:

26 Feb, 1944
The German submarine U-91 was sunk Northern Atlantic, in position 49º45'N, 26º20'W by the British frigates HMS Affleck (A/Cdr. C. Gwinner, DSO, RN (retired)), HMS Gore (Lt J. Reeves-Brown, RN) and HMS Gould (Lt D.W. Ungoed, RN). (see map)

1 Mar, 1944
The German submarine U-358 in the North Atlantic north of the Azores, in position 45º46'N, 23º16'W, by depth charges from the British frigates HMS Gould, HMS Affleck, HMS Gore and HMS Garlies. (see map)

16 Mar, 1944
The German submarine U-392 was sunk in the Straits of Gibraltar, in position 35º55'N, 05º41'W, by depth charges from the British frigate HMS Affleck (A/Cdr. C. Gwinner, DSO, DSC, RN (retired)), the British destroyer HMS Vanoc (Lt.Cdr. P.R. Ward, RN) and depth charges from 3 US Catalina aircraft (VP 63). (see map)

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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