ANGUILLA (ex PF-72) --- ANTIGUA (ex PF-73) --- ASCENSION (ex PF-74)
BAHAMAS (ex PF-75) --- BARBADOS (ex PF-76) --- CAICOS (ex PF-77)
CAYMAN (ex PF- 78) --- DOMINICA (ex PF-79) --- LABUAN (ex PF-80)
TOBAGO (ex PF-81) --- MONSERRAT (ex PF-82) --- NYASALAND (ex PF-83)
PAPUA (ex PF-84) --- PITCAIRN (ex PF-85) --- ST. HELENA (ex PF-86
SARAWAK (ex PF-87) --- SEYCHELLES (ex PF-88) --- PERIM (ex PF-89)
SOMALILAND (ex PF-90) --- TORTOLA (ex PF-91) --- ZANZIBAR (ex PF-92)
Launching at the new Walsh-Kaiser yard in Providence, Rhode Island, stormed ahead with all twenty-one of the frigates afloat by November 1943. The Royal Navy proclaimed the speed of building phenomenal as the Union Jack was run up. In home waters the American made all-welded frigates claimed six U-boats by war's end, the first by HMS ASCENSION on 25 November 1944, and the last by HMS ANGUILA on 29 April 1945. Late in the war, HMS CAICOS was converted to a Fighter Direction Ship and anchored off Harwich in the North Sea to warn of approaching V1 flying bombs and V2 rockets being fired from Holland.
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