Allied Warships

HMS Ameer (D 01)

Escort Carrier of the Ameer class

Navy	The Royal Navy
Type	Escort Carrier
Class	Ameer
Pennant	D 01
Built by	Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. (Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	18 Jul 1942
Launched	18 Oct 1942
Commissioned	20 Jul 1943
End service	17 Jan 1946
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.
Former name	USS Baffins

Commands listed for HMS Ameer (D 01)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Capt. Gerald Douglas Yates, RN	May 1943	9 Jul 1944
2	Cdr. John Hext Lewes, OBE, RN	9 Jul 1944	May 1945 (1)
3	Cdr. Peter Douglas Herbert Raymond Pelly, DSO, RN	May 1945	Oct 1945 ?

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