USS Baffins (CVE 35)

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Escort carrier
Class	Repeat Bogue
Pennant	CVE 35
Built by	Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. (Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	18 Jul 1942
Launched	18 Oct 1942
Commissioned	28 Jun 1943
End service	19 Jul 1943
History	Decommissioned and transferred to the R.N. as HMS Ameer on 19 July 1943. Commissioned in R.N. service on 20 July 1943. Returned to the U.S.N. on 17 January 1946. Stricken on 20 March 1946. Sold into merchantile service on 17 September 1946 being renamed Robin Kirk. Scrapped in Taiwan in 1969.
Career notes	To the Royal Navy as HMS Ameer

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Capt. William Lehigh Rees, USN	28 Jun 1943	???

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