| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Submarine Depot Ship |
| Class | Maidstone |
| Pennant | F 04 |
| Built by | John Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd. (Clydebank, Scotland) |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | 30 Jun 1937 |
| Launched | 11 Aug 1938 |
| Commissioned | 14 May 1939 |
| End service | |
| History | Based in home waters during the Second World War apart from a brief period in Halifax, Canada in 1941. She left Singapore for the U.K. on 31 March 1971. She arrived back in the U.K. on 7 June 1971. |
Commands listed for HMS Forth (F 04)
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| Commander | From | To | |
| 1 | Capt. William Derek Stephens, RN | 14 Feb 1938 | 30 Jan 1940 |
| 2 | Capt. George Cunningham Paton Menzies, RN | 30 Jan 1940 | 31 Dec 1941 |
| 3 | Capt. Hugh Meynell Cyril Ionides, RN | 31 Dec 1941 | 30 Apr 1943 |
| 4 | Capt. Robert Spencer Warne, RN | 30 Apr 1943 | 5 Feb 1945 |
| 5 | Capt. Benjamin Bryant, DSO, DSC, RN | 5 Feb 1945 | 11 May 1945 |
| 6 | Capt. Lord Ashbourne, DSO, RN | 11 May 1945 | 9 Sep 1945 |
| 7 | Capt. Wilfrid John Wentworth Woods, DSO, RN | 9 Sep 1945 |
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