Allied Warships

HMS Kilchatten (Z 03)

Patrol vessel of the Kil class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypePatrol vessel
ClassKil 
PennantZ 03 
Built byPullman Standard Car Co. (Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.) 
Ordered10 May 1942 
Laid down7 Dec 1942 
Launched27 May 1943 
Commissioned16 Aug 1943 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Returned U.S.N. in December 1946.
Sold to Norway and converted into a passenger ferry being renamed Stavanger.
Sold to Finland and renamed Kong Sverre, later renamed Capri Corne.
Scrapped in Finland.

 
Former nameUSS PCE 829

Commands listed for HMS Kilchatten (Z 03)

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CommanderFromTo
1T/Lt. David Malcolm Edwards, DSC, RNRNov 1943Oct 1944
2T/Lt. James Ralph Brown, RNROct 1944

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