| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Frigate |
| Class | Colony |
| Pennant | K 593 |
| Built by | Walsch-Kaiser Co., Inc. (Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A.) |
| Ordered | 10 Jun 1943 |
| Laid down | 7 Oct 1943 |
| Launched | 5 Nov 1943 |
| Commissioned | 16 Mar 1944 |
| End service | |
| History | Returned to the USN 22 May 1946. HMS Perim is not listed as active unit in the October 1945 Navy List |
Commands listed for HMS Perim (K 593)
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| Commander | From | To | |
| 1 | T/A/Lt.Cdr. Nicholas John Turney Monsarrat, RNVR | 16 Mar 1944 | 24 Dec 1944 |
| 2 | Lt. Arthur Horace Kent, DSC, RD, RNR | 24 Dec 1944 | mid 1945 |
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Notable events involving Perim include:
16 Mar 1944
See mention in HMS Perin's first Captain's autobiography "Life is a Four Letter Word - Volume 2: Breaking Out" in which Nicholas Monsarrat says:
Mine was called Perim, after the tiny island-colony near Aden (there was another one called Monserrat, but they wouldn't give her to me) and in Perim we ran fourteen sea trials, thirteen of them resulting in damage to our main bearings, before a little man from Tyneside was flown out, put his stubby finger on the trouble, and got the programme moving again....I was standing by a newly built frigate in Providence, Rhode Island - a frigate which, as soon as she could be made to work, would be my own pride and joy. But she had been built at lightning speed, together with twenty-three others, by Henry J. Kaiser; and I was never surprised to learn, not many years later, that the Henry J. Kaiser car was no bloody good, because the Henry J, Kaiser frigate was no bloody good either.
Monsarrat, who would later write "The Cruel Sea", mentions that each of these ships cost five million dollars each. He also mentions that HMS Perim worked up off Bermuda.
(1)27 Sep 1944
HMS Upright (Lt. J.A.L. Wilkinson, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Bermuda with HMS Papua (Lt.Cdr. E.H. Lynes, RD, RNR) and HMS Perim (T/A/Lt.Cdr. N.J.T. Mosarrat, RNVR). (2)
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). (3)
Sources
- Personal communication
- ADM 173/19286
- ADM 173/20363
ADM numbers indicate documents at the British National Archives at Kew, London.