Frigate of the Colony class
| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Frigate |
| Class | Colony |
| Pennant | K 584 |
| Built by | Walsch-Kaiser Co., Inc. (Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A.) |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | 7 Aug, 1943 |
| Launched | 21 Sep, 1943 |
| Commissioned | 5 Feb, 1944 |
| End service | |
| Loss position | |
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| History | Briefly named Gold Coast but launched as Labuan.
Returned to the USN on 18 May 1948.
Commanding Officer:
T/A/Lt.Cdr. Vivian Dickinson Hamlin Bidwell, DSC, RNR
5 February 1944 – still in command in July 1945 according to the Navy List
Bar to DSC awarded on 3 July 1945
HMS Labuan is not listed as active unit in the October 1945 Navy List |
| Former name | USS Harvey PF-80 |
| Noteable events involving Labuan include: 27 Feb, 1945
The German submarine U-327 was sunk in the west part of the Channel, in position 49º46'N, 05º47'W, by depth charges from the British frigates HMS Labuan (T/A/Lt.Cdr. V.D.H. Bidwell, DSC, RNR) and HMS Loch Fada (Cdr. B.A. Rogers, RD, RNR) and the British sloop HMS Wild Goose (Cdr. D.E.G. Wemyss, DSO, DSC and Bar, RN). (see map) |
