HMS_Holmes_(K581)

HMS <i>Holmes</i> (K581)

HMS Holmes (K581)

Frigate of the Royal Navy

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Holmes and USS Holmes.

HMS Holmes (K581) was a Royal Navy Captain-class frigate, originally a Buckley-class destroyer escort intended for the United States Navy. Before she was finished in 1944, she was transferred to the Royal Navy under the terms of Lend-Lease, and was in commission from 1944 to 1945, seeing service during World War II.

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Construction and transfer

The still-unnamed ship was laid down as the U.S. Navy destroyer escort DE-572 by Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Inc., in Hingham, Massachusetts, on 27 October 1943.[1] Allocated to the United Kingdom, she received the British name Holmes and was launched on 18 December 1943. She was transferred to the United Kingdom upon completion on 31 January 1944.

Service history

An officer taking a compass bearing aboard HMS Holmes whilst she was guarding Allied supply lines to the Normandy beachhead

Commissioned into service in the Royal Navy as the frigate HMS Holmes (K581) on 31 January 1944 simultaneously with her transfer, the ship served on escort duty for the remainder of World War II. The Royal Navy returned her to the U.S. Navy on 3 December 1945.[2]

Disposal

The U.S. Navy struck Holmes from its Naval Vessel Register on 7 February 1946. She was sold to Walter H. Wilms and Company of Detroit, Michigan, in October 1947 for scrapping.

Citations

  1. [1]
    uboat.net HMS Holmes (K 581)
  2. [2]
    Navsource Online: Destroyer Escort Photo Archive DE-572 HMS Holmes (K-581)
  3. [3]
    Captain Class Frigate Association: HMS Holmes K581 (DE 572)

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