HMS Hotham

HMS Hotham (K583)

Navy: Royal Navy

Type: Escort Destroyer

Class: Captain

Pennant: K 583

Built by: Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard Inc. (Hingham, Massachusetts, U.S.A.)

Laid down: 5 Nov, 1943

Launched: 22 Dec, 1943

Commissioned: 8 Feb, 1944

History: Assigned USN pennant DE 574 but not named.
Returned to the US Navy on 13 March, 1946. Scrapped.

8 Jun, 1944
HMS Hotham (Lt.Cdr. S. Ayles) and HMS Eglinton (Lt.Cdr. F.M. Graves) pick up survivors from the British merchant Maid of Orleans southeast of St.Catherine´s Point, Isle of Wight in position 50.06N, 00.41W.

Navy:	Royal Navy
Type:	Escort Destroyer
Class:	Captain
Pennant:	K 583
Built by:	Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard Inc. (Hingham, Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
Laid down:	5 Nov, 1943
Launched:	22 Dec, 1943
Commissioned:	8 Feb, 1944
History:	Assigned USN pennant DE 574 but not named. Returned to the US Navy on 13 March, 1946. Scrapped.
	8 Jun, 1944 HMS Hotham (Lt.Cdr. S. Ayles) and HMS Eglinton (Lt.Cdr. F.M. Graves) pick up survivors from the British merchant Maid of Orleans southeast of St.Catherine´s Point, Isle of Wight in position 50.06N, 00.41W.