HMS Kilham (Z 07)

Navy	The Royal Navy
Type	Patrol vessel
Class	Kil
Pennant	Z 07
Built by	Pullman Standard Car Co. (Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.)
Ordered	10 May 1942
Laid down	26 Feb 1943
Launched	2 Aug 1943
Commissioned	9 Oct 1943
End service
History	Returned U.S.N. in 1946. Sold to Fylkesbaatane i Sogn og Fjordane, Bergen, Norway in 1949 and converted to a passenger ship being renamed M/S Sognefjord in 1950. Sold in 1982 to Filmeffekt A/S, Oslo, Norway and renamed Orion. Sold in 1984 to A/S Orion, Milde, Norway and laid up. Sold in 1987 to Matkat OY, Helsingfors, Finland. Sold again in 1991 to Orion Risteilyt O/Y, Hamina, Finland and renamed Orion II. Sold in 1996 to Jaako Mathias Eriksson of Honduras. Sold again in 1997 to an unknown buyer in Thailand and renamed Explorer. Currently (2004) named Orient Explorer.
Former name	USS PCE 833

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and that we only list Commanding Officers for the duration of the Second World War.

	Commander	From	To
1	T/Lt. Allen James Southgate, RNR	Nov 1943	May 1944
2	Lt. Brian Henry Fairley, RN	May 1944	mid/late44
3	T/Lt. Ronald Kenneth Palmer, RNVR	mid/late44	late 1944
4	T/Lt. Innes Athole Thorpe, RNVR	late 1944

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