| Navy: | Royal Navy |
| Type: | Destroyer Escort |
| Class: | Captain |
| Pennant: | K 552 |
| Built by: | Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard Inc. (Hingham, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) |
| Laid down: | 5 Jul, 1943 |
| Launched: | 2 Oct, 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 29 Nov, 1943 |
| History: | Assigned USN
pennant DE 87 but not named.
HMS Ekins (Lt. A. Tandevin, RNVR) was severely damaged by a mine in the North Sea some 13 miles north-west of Ostend, Belgium on 16 April 1945, declared a total loss. Scrapped in the Netherlands.
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| Former name: | DE 87 |
