HMS Perim (K593), ex-Sierra Leone, was a Colony-class frigate of the United Kingdom that served during World War II. She originally was ordered by the...

1946 HMS Nyasaland (K587) : 15 April 1946 HMS Papua (K588) : 13 May 1946; sold to Egypt and sank in Gulf of Suez 1953 HMS Perim (K593), (ex-HMS Sierra...

(Kingfisher-class corvette) Dec 1943 – Mar 1944: CO, HMS Ettrick (River-class frigate) Apr 1944 – Dec 1944: CO, HMS Perim (Colony-class frigate: a US-built version...

as HMS Sarawak (K591) PG-196, later PF-88; to UK as HMS Seychelles (K592) PG-197, later PF-89; to UK as HMS Sierra Leone (K593) (later HMS Perim) PG-198...

USS Greensboro (PF-101) HMS Anguilla (K500) HMS Antigua (K501) HMS Ascension (K502) HMS Caicos (K505) HMS Dominica (K507) HMS Somaliland (K594) HMS Tortola (K595)...

spelled Sheikh Said) is a rocky peninsula in Yemen, near the island of Perim on the Bab-el-Mandeb at the entrance to the Red Sea. In 1868, it was purchased...

of Perim, where she arrived on 20 December. Perim is in the Bab-el-Mandeb, the strait between the Red Sea and Indian Ocean. Britain then used Perim as...

HMS Petard was a P-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service during the Second World War. She was one of only three P-class ships, out...

June she took part in the sinking of the Italian submarine Torricelli off Perim Island, and later attacked the Italian submarine Perla. On 17 March 1941...

Helena (K590) HMS Sarawak (K591) HMS Seychelles (K592) HMS Perim (K593) HMS Somaliland (K594) HMS Tortola (K595) HMS Zanzibar (K596) A July 1945 newspaper...

Khartoum and Kingston encountered the Italian submarine Torricelli off Perim Island. A gun duel between the British ships and Torricelli took place in...

a United States Navy patrol frigate transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Perim (K593) from 1944 to 1945 Phillimore & Co. Ltd., former publishing house...

Kandahar, Kingston and the sloop Shoreham in search for Torricelli near Perim Island. After interception, Khartoum and these warships took part in a surface...

Hodeida, etc. On 13 January 1857 Mahi took a party of sappers and miners to Perim to establish a British military outpost there. The move was to forestall...

caused a fire which led to magazine explosion and Khartoum was beached at Perim but the cause is not attributed to the gun battle. José Sanjurjo was one...

personally led a six-day bombing campaign. After silencing Turkish guns at Perim, Ben My Chree headed to Jidda where on 15 June, her aircraft operated in...

Sunk by Italian cruiser-laid mine HMS Kashmir (F12) off Crete 23 May 1941 Sunk by German aircraft HMS Khartoum (F45) Perim 23 June 1940 Sunk by internal explosion...

combined manoeuvres off Nauplia, she was back in the Gulf visiting Aden and Perim the following month, then Hodeida in December. She spent some time before...

with Ramb I and Ramb II, Eritrea slipped through a British blockade off Perim and sailed into the Indian Ocean on 20 February 1941. She sailed across...

Saïd, a peninsula which juts out into the Red Sea towards the island of Perim. At the start of the war, the British had one force stationed in the Aden...

Saïd, a peninsula which juts out into the Red Sea towards the island of Perim. Meanwhile, Britain ordered The 29th Indian Brigade, under Brigadier-General...

March 1966, p. 350 Mountbatten of Burma (December 1979). "Destroyer Design – HMS Kelly". Naval Historical Society of Australia. originally printed in Naval...

travelled to Port Said and through the Suez Canal for a visit to Suez, Suakin, Perim, Hodeida and Aden. She was back at Malta on 26 January 1903. In 1906 Speedy...

Torricelli on 21 June. The submarine headed for home but was caught off Perim Island and sunk by Kandahar, Kingston, Khartoum and the sloop Shoreham....

HMAS Yarra and Indus and the Hunt-class minesweepers HMS Derby and Huntley. Convoy BN 7 was nearing Perim, a volcanic island off the south-west coast of Yemen...

Convoy US 8/1 to Egypt. She again collided with a coaster, this time off Perim in the Bab-el-Mandeb at the entrance to the Red Sea. She sustained only...

the island of Perim and prevent all communication of the French in Egypt with the Indian Ocean, by way of the Red Sea. The island of Perim was found unsuitable...

Country Location Details  Libya Al-Khadim Airport near Marj. A forward operating base  Yemen Socotra and Perim Partial military base and air base....

after the Blenheims took off, five Wellesleys from 223 Squadron flew from Perim Island and bombed Addis Ababa airfield in bad weather. A CR 42 managed to...

Socotra leaf-toed gecko (Hemidactylus forbesii). Thomas Fellowes was sent on HMS Briton in 1872 to Abd al Kuri, alongside Socotra, by British authorities...