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HMS Rowley (K 560)

Frigate of the Captain class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeFrigate
ClassCaptain 
PennantK 560 
Built byBethlehem-Hingham Shipyard Inc. (Hingham, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down18 Aug, 1943 
Launched30 Oct, 1943 
Commissioned22 Dec, 1943 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Assigned USN penant DE 95 but not named.

Returned to the USN on 12 November 1945. Scrapped.

Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. Frederick John Gwynn Jones, RNR
22 December 1943 – 9 May 1945

Lt. W.R.M. Murdock, DSC, RNVR
9 May 1945 – still in command in July 1945 according to the Navy List

HMS Rowley is not listed in the October 1945 Navy List 

Former nameDE 95

Noteable events involving Rowley include:

27 Feb, 1945
The German submarine U-1208 was sunk in the English Channel south-east of Isles of Scilly, in position 49º51'783N, 06º06'750W, by depth charges from the British frigates HMS Duckworth (A/Lt.Cdr. D. Jermain, DSC and Bar, RN) and HMS Rowley (Lt.Cdr. F.J.G. Jones, RNR). (see map)


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