HMS Ness (K219) was a of the Royal Navy (RN). Ness was built by Henry Robb, Limited in Edinburgh, Scotland at the Leith docks for the Royal Navy. She served during World War II.
Ness was one of 151 River-class frigates launched between 1941 and 1944 for use as anti-submarine convoy escorts, named after rivers in the United Kingdom. The ships were designed by naval engineer William Reed, of Smith's Dock Company of South Bank-on-Tees, to have the endurance and anti-submarine capabilities of the sloops, while being quick and cheap to build in civil dockyards using the machinery (e.g. reciprocating steam engines instead of turbines) and construction techniques pioneered in the building of the s. Its purpose was to improve on the convoy escort classes in service with the Royal Navy at the time, including the Flower class.
On 23 May 1943, while escorting a convoy about west of Portugal's north coast Ness and sighted a surfaced submarine and closed to attack. After several depth charge runs multiple explosions were heard on deck, and debris was seen surfacing in the ocean. Later it was learned that the , the most successful Italian submarine of the war, had been sunk along with all crew.
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