HMS Affleck K462 (DE 71)
Buckley Class
Named after Admiral E Affleck of the Bedford during the American War of Independence
- Laid Down
- 5th April 1943 at Bethlehem Steel, Hingham, MA.
- Launched
- 30th June 1943
- Commissioned
- 29th September 1943
- Date returned to US Navy
- Not returned to US Navy
- Fate
- Torpedoed by U486 off Cherbourg 26th December 1944 & written off as a Constructive Total Loss
(CTL), Nine members of the crew were killed. Hulk refurbished and served in Portuguese Merchant Service as Nostra De La
Luz in 1954 serving into the 1970s.
- Commanding Officers
- Lt K Pilditch on commissioning and then Commander C Gwinner RN (SO 1st EG)
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