Allied Warships

HMSAS Good Hope (K 432)

Frigate of the Loch class

NavyThe South African Navy
TypeFrigate
ClassLoch 
PennantK 432 
Built byBlyth Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. Ltd. (Blyth, U.K.) 
Ordered28 Dec 1942 
Laid down8 Nov 1943 
Launched5 Jul 1944 
Commissioned1 Dec 1944 
End service 
History

Laid down as HMS Loch Boisdale.
Handed over to South African Navy on 9 November 1944 and completed on 1 December 1944 as HMSAS Good Hope.
Sold to be broken up for scrap on 12 June 1978.

 
Former nameHMS Loch Boisdale

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Notable events involving Good Hope include:


19 Dec 1944
HMS Vitality (Lt. K.S. Renshaw, DSC, RNR) conducted A/S exercises off Tobermory with HMS Loch Craggie (T/A/Lt.Cdr. C.L.L. Davies, RNVR), HMSAS Good Hope (T/Lt.Cdr. R.P. Dryden-Dymond, SANF(V)), HMS Alnwick Castle (A/Lt.Cdr. H.A. Stonehouse, DSC, RNR) and HMS Seabear (T/A/Lt.Cdr. A.R. Patton, RNVR). (1)

21 Dec 1944
HMS Vitality (Lt. K.S. Renshaw, DSC, RNR) conducted A/S exercises off Tobermory with HMS Snowdrop (Lt. J.B. Hogg, RNR), HMS Alnwick Castle (A/Lt.Cdr. H.A. Stonehouse, DSC, RNR) and HMSAS Good Hope (T/Lt.Cdr. R.P. Dryden-Dymond, SANF(V)). (1)

6 Apr 1945
HMS Vulpine (Lt. W.D.S. Scott, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Campbeltown with HMS Shemara (Cdr.(Retd.) H. Buckle, RN) and HMS Fowey (A/Lt.Cdr. G.E. Newey, RNR), HMS St. Helena (T/A/Lt.Cdr. W.G. Pardoe-Matthews, RNR), HMSAS Good Hope (T/Lt.Cdr. R.P. Dryden-Dymond, SANF(V)) and HMS Perim (Lt. A.H. Kent, DSC, RD, RNR). (2)

Sources

  1. ADM 173/19424
  2. ADM 173/20363

ADM numbers indicate documents at the British National Archives at Kew, London.


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