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Allied Warships

HMS Plym (K 271)

Frigate of the River class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeFrigate
ClassRiver 
PennantK 271 
Built bySmiths Dock Co., Ltd. (South Bank-on-Tees, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down1 Aug, 1942 
Launched4 Feb, 1943 
Commissioned16 May, 1943 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Expended (vapourised) on 3 October 1952 in the first British atomic-bomb test at Trimouille Island, Monte Bello, Australia.

Commanding Officers:
T/A/Lt.Cdr. Alan Foxall, RNR
15 March 1943 – August 1945

T/A/Lt.Cdr. Robert Stevenson Miller, DSC, RNR
August 1945 – still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List 


Noteable events involving Plym include:

9 Oct, 1943
On 9 October 1943, convoy WS-33 arrived in South Africa from the UK with reinforcements for service in Burma, the convoy consisted of 4 ships. The British frigates HMS Bann, HMS Plym, HMS Teviot and HMS Trent were responsible for providing the Anti-Submarine escort on the last leg of the passage.


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