Frigate of the River class
| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Frigate |
| Class | River |
| Pennant | K 239 |
| Built by | Hall, Russell & Co. Ltd. (Aberdeen, Scotland) |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | 15 Aug, 1941 |
| Launched | 30 May, 1942 |
| Commissioned | 12 Oct, 1942 |
| End service | |
| Loss position | |
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| History | Transferred to the Royal Indian Navy May 1946.
Returned to the Royal Navy in April 1947.
Scrapped on 25 February 1955.
Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. Frank Bentley Collinson, RD, RNR (retired)
1 October 1942 – 5 May 1945
DSO awarded on 30 November 1943
A/Cdr. Thomas Stanley Lane Fox-Pitt, OBE, RN (retired)
5 May 1945 – 21 September 1945
Lt. P.N. Joyce, RN
21 September 1945 – still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List |
| Noteable events involving Test include: 26 May, 1943
The German submarine U-436 was sunk in the North Atlantic west of Cape Ortegal, Spain, in position 43º49'N, 15º56'W, by depth charges from the British frigate HMS Test (Lt.Cdr. F.B. Collinson, RN (retired)) and the corvette HMS Hyderabad (T/Lt. T. Cooper, RNR). |
