Allied Warships

HMS Tobago (K 585)

Frigate of the Colony class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeFrigate
ClassColony 
PennantK 585 
Built byWalsch-Kaiser Co., Inc. (Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A.) 
Ordered10 Jun 1943 
Laid down17 Aug 1943 
Launched27 Sep 1943 
Commissioned12 Aug 1944 
End service 
History

Returned to the USN on 13 May 1946.

HMS Tobago is not in the October 1945 Navy List

 
Former nameUSS Holmes PF-81

Commands listed for HMS Tobago (K 585)

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1T/A/Lt.Cdr. John Henry Louis May, OBE, RNVR3 Nov 1943mid 1945

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