Navy | The South African Navy |
Type | Frigate |
Class | Loch |
Pennant | K 432 |
Built by | Blyth Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. Ltd. (Blyth, U.K.) |
Ordered | 28 Dec 1942 |
Laid down | 8 Nov 1943 |
Launched | 5 Jul 1944 |
Commissioned | 1 Dec 1944 |
End service | |
History | Laid down as HMS Loch Boisdale. |
Former name | HMS 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
- ADM 173/19424
- ADM 173/20363
ADM numbers indicate documents at the British National Archives at Kew, London.