Frigate of the Colony class
| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Frigate |
| Class | Colony |
| Pennant | K 500 |
| Built by | Walsch-Kaiser Co., Inc. (Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A.) |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | 1 Apr, 1943 |
| Launched | 14 Jul, 1943 |
| Commissioned | 15 Oct, 1943 |
| End service | |
| Loss position | |
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| History | Returned to the US on 31 May, 1946.
Commanding Officers:
T/A/Lt.Cdr. C. Morrison-Payne, RNVR
8 July 1943 – 19 May 1945
T/A/Lt.Cdr. D.C. Williams, RNVR
19 May 1945 – still in command in July 1945 according to the Navy List |
| Former name | USS Hallowell PF-72 |
| Noteable events involving Anguilla include: 29 Apr, 1945
The German submarine U-286 was sunk in the Barents Sea north of Murmansk, Russia, in position 69º29'N, 33º37'E, by depth charges from the British frigates HMS Loch Insh (T/A/Lt.Cdr. E.W.C. Dempster, DSC, RNVR), HMS Anguilla (T/A/Lt.Cdr. C. Morrison-Payne, RNVR) and HMS Cotton (Lt.Cdr. I.W.T. Beloe, RN).
(see map) |
