HMS CALDER (ex-DE 58) K 349
Named for Admiral Sir Robert Calder
(1745-1818), Captain of the Fleet (Trafalgar)
Type: TE
Builder: BHM
Laid down as USS FORMOE
Keel laid 12/11/42
Launched 03/27/43
Commissioned 07/15/43
First CO: Lt Cdr A. D. White, RNR
Decommissioned at NYNY 10/19/45
Stricken 12/05/45, scrapped
Unit of 4th EG
Assisted in sinking two U-boats

From the research of Anne McCarthy,
with contributions by Pat Perrella and Pat Stephens, webmaster. March 2006
 

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