Category: HMS Burges (K347)

Categories: Royal Navy Ships

This category contains profiles of those who served aboard the HMS Burges (K347)

HMS Burges (K347) was a Captain-class frigate, built in the United States as a Evarts-class destroyer escort, and transferred to the Royal Navy under the terms of Lend-Lease, which served in World War II. She was named after Captain Richard Rundell Burges, commander of HMS Ardent, who was killed at the battle of Camperdown on 11 October 1797.

Operating as a Royal Navy ship, Burges served in the Atlantic in late 1943 and early 1944. In 1944, she moved to a zone of operations in the North Sea. The last months of World War II saw her active in the English Channel.

For the history of the ship, see Wikipedia:HMS Burges (K347).

For the wikitree link to USS Burges (DE-12) see the entry for USS Burges (DE-12).

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