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HMS Fitzroy (ii) (K 553)

Frigate of the Captain class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeFrigate
ClassCaptain 
PennantK 553 
Built byBethlehem-Hingham Shipyard Inc. (Hingham, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down24 Aug, 1943 
Launched1 Sep, 1943 
Commissioned16 Oct, 1943 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Assigned USN penant DE 88 but not named.

Returned to the USN on 6 January 1946. Scrapped. Battle Honours include; Battle of Atlantic - Artic Convoys & Normandy Landings.

Commanding Officers:
Cdr. Colin Henry Campbell, DSC, RN
16 October 1943 – January 1945

Lt. C.D.C. McNeil, RN
January 1945 – 17 April 1944

A/Lt.Cdr. A.J.M. Miller, DSC, RNVR
17 April 1944 – ca. early 1945

Lt.Cdr. Orme Gordon Stuart, RCNVR
ca. early 1945 –still in command in July 1945 according to the Navy List
DSC awarded on 14 August 1945

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

Former nameDE 88

Noteable events involving Fitzroy (ii) include:

27 Mar, 1945
The German submarine U-722 was sunk in the North Atlantic near the Hebrides, in position 57º09'N, 06º55'W, by depth charges from the British frigates HMS Fitzroy (Lt.Cdr. O.G. Stuart, RCNVR), HMS Redmill (Lt. J.R.A. Denne, RN) and HMS Byron (Lt. J. Burfield, DSC, RN). (see map)

8 Apr, 1945
The German submarine U-1001 was sunk in the Atlantic south-west of Land's End, in position 49º19'N, 10º23'W, by depth charges from the British frigates HMS Fitzroy (Lt.Cdr. O.G. Stuart, RCNVR), and HMS Byron (Lt. J. Burfield, RN). (see map)


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