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HMS Garlies (K 475)

Frigate of the Captain class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeFrigate
ClassCaptain 
PennantK 475 
Built byBoston Navy Yard (Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down7 Apr, 1943 
Launched19 May, 1943 
Commissioned13 Sep, 1943 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Returned to the US on 20 August 1945 at Chatham, England, and commissioned into the USN as Garlies (DE-271) the same day.

Commanding Officers:
Lt. Reginald Lacey Calpe, DSC, RN
20 September 1943 – 16 October 1944
Promoted to Lt.Cdr. on ???

T/A/Lt.Cdr. L.M.M. Stamp, RNVR
16 October 1944 – still in command in July 1945 according to the Navy List

HMS Garlies is not listed in the October 1945 Navy List 

Former nameUSS Fleming DE 271

Noteable events involving Garlies include:

1 Mar, 1944
The German submarine U-358 in the North Atlantic north of the Azores, in position 45º46'N, 23º16'W, by depth charges from the British frigates HMS Gould, HMS Affleck, HMS Gore and HMS Garlies. (see map)


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