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HMS Ekins (K 552)

Frigate of the Captain class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeFrigate
ClassCaptain 
PennantK 552 
Built byBethlehem-Hingham Shipyard Inc. (Hingham, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down5 Jul, 1943 
Launched2 Oct, 1943 
Commissioned29 Nov, 1943 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Assigned USN penant DE 87 but not named.

HMS Ekins (Lt. A.R. Tandevin, RNVR) was severely damaged by a mine in the North Sea some 13 miles north-west of Ostend, Belgium on 16 April 1945, declared a total loss. Scrapped in the Netherlands. Ekins

Commanding Officers:
T/Lt. G.G. Bonner-Davis, RNVR
November 1943 – 16 August 1944

Lt. A.R. Tandevin, DSC, RNVR
16 October 1944 - ???

T/Lt. Robert John Slater, RNVR
??? – still in command in July 1945 according to the Navy List
DSC awarded on 17 July 1945

HMS Ekins is not listed as active unit in the October 1945 Navy List 

Former nameDE 87

Noteable events involving Ekins include:

21 Jul, 1944
The German submarine U-212 was sunk in the English Channel south of Brighton, in position 50º27'N, 00º13'W, by depth charges from the British frigates HMS Curzon (Lt.Cdr. A. Diggins, RN) and HMS Ekins (Lt. G. Bonner-Davies, RN). (see map)


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