Allied Warships

HMCS Ribble (K 525)

Frigate of the River class

Navy	The Royal Canadian Navy
Type	Frigate
Class	River
Pennant	K 525
Built by	Blyth Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. Ltd. (Blyth, U.K.)
Ordered	14 Jun 1942
Laid down	31 Dec 1942
Launched	10 Nov 1943
Commissioned	24 Jul 1944
End service	11 Jun 1945
History	Decommissioned and returned to the Royal Navy on 11 June 1945. Scrapped 9 July 1957.
Former name	HMS Ribble (ii)

Commands listed for HMCS Ribble (K 525)

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/A/Lt.Cdr. Allan Brown Taylor, RCNR	14 May 1944	20 Nov 1944
2	A/Lt.Cdr. Aubrey Alvin Randle Dykes, RCNR	21 Nov 1944	11 Jun 1945

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Notable events involving Ribble include:

23 Aug 1944
HMS Vitality (Lt. K.S. Renshaw, DSC, RNR) conducted exercises off Tobermory with HMCS Ribble (T/A/Lt.Cdr. A.B. Taylor, RCNR) and HMCS Loch Achanalt (T/Lt. R.W. Hart, RCNVR). (1)

27 Aug 1944
HMS Vitality (Lt. K.S. Renshaw, DSC, RNR) conducted exercises off Tobermory with HMCS Ribble (T/A/Lt.Cdr. A.B. Taylor, RCNR) and HMCS Loch Achanalt (T/Lt. R.W. Hart, RCNVR). (1)

28 Aug 1944
HMS Vitality (Lt. K.S. Renshaw, DSC, RNR) conducted exercises off Tobermory with HMCS Ribble (T/A/Lt.Cdr. A.B. Taylor, RCNR) and HMCS Loch Achanalt (T/Lt. R.W. Hart, RCNVR). (1)

31 Aug 1944
HMS Vitality (Lt. K.S. Renshaw, DSC, RNR) conducted exercises off Tobermory with HMCS Ribble (T/A/Lt.Cdr. A.B. Taylor, RCNR). (1)

1 Sep 1944
HMS Vitality (Lt. K.S. Renshaw, DSC, RNR) conducted exercises off Tobermory with HMCS Ribble (T/A/Lt.Cdr. A.B. Taylor, RCNR) and HMCS Loch Achanalt (T/Lt. R.W. Hart, RCNVR). (2)

17 Oct 1944
HMS Torbay (Lt. C.P. Norman, DSO, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Larne with ships from the 26th Escort Group. These were the frigates HMCS Beacon Hill (T/Lt.Cdr. E.T. Simmons, DSO, RCNVR), HMCS Jonquiere (T/Lt.Cdr. J.R. Kidston, RCNVR), HMCS Montreal (T/Lt.Cdr. S.W. Howell, RCNR), HMCS New Glasgow (T/A/Lt.Cdr. R.M. Hanbury, RCNVR) and HMCS Ribble (T/A/Lt.Cdr. A.B. Taylor, RCNR).

Also a practice attack was made on HMS Philante (Cdr. M.J. Evans, OBE, RN). (3)