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HMS Bligh (K 467)

Frigate of the Captain class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeFrigate
ClassCaptain 
PennantK 467 
Built byBethlehem-Hingham Shipyard Inc. (Hingham, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down10 May, 1943 
Launched26 Jul, 1943 
Commissioned29 Sep, 1943 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Returned to the USN on 12 November 1945. Stricken and scrapped (sold on 13 June 1946).

Commanding Officers:
A/Lt.Cdr. Robert E. Blyth, RNVR
1 August 1943 - ???

A/Lt.Cdr. Jack Winston Cooper, RNR (retired)
??? - ???
DSC awarded on 19 September 1944

T/Lt. W.B. de Quincey, RNVR
??? – 26 January 1945

Cdr. Bertram Wilfrid Taylor, RN
26 January 1945 – 31 July 1945
DSC awarded on 29 May 1945

A/Lt.Cdr. Robert E. Blyth, RNVR
31 July 1945 – still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List 

Former nameUSS Liddle DE 76

Noteable events involving Bligh include:

6 May, 1944
The German submarine U-765 was sunk in the North Atlantic, in position 52º30'N, 28º28'W, by depth charges from 2 Swordfish aircraft (Sqdn. 825) of the British escort carrier HMS Vindex (Capt. H.T.T. Bayliss, RN) and the British frigates HMS Bickerton (Cdr. D.G.F.W. MacIntyre, DSO and 2 Bars, RN), HMS Bligh (A/Lt.Cdr. J.W. Cooper, RNR (retired)) and HMS Aylmer (Lt. A.D.P. Campbell, RN). (see map)

7 Nov, 1944
The accidental firing of an Anti-Aircraft gun in Liverpool docks leaded to death and injury on the troopship Capetown Castle moored opposite. HMS Bligh then escorted convoy KMF-36 which sailed soon afterwards to Port Said.

27 Jan, 1945
The German submarine U-1172 was sunk in St George´s Channel, in position 52º24'N, 05º42'W, by depth charges from the British frigates HMS Tyler (A/Lt.Cdr. C.H. Ranking, RN), HMS Keats (T/A/Lt.Cdr. N.F. Israel, DSC, RNR) and HMS Bligh (Cdr. B.W. Taylor, RN). (see map)


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