HMS Squirrel was an launched in 1944 and scuttled off Phuket Island, Thailand in 1945 after being damaged by a mine.

Squirrel was taking part in minesweeping operations off the west coast of the Malay peninsula

Malay Peninsula

The Malay Peninsula or Thai-Malay Peninsula is a peninsula in Southeast Asia. The land mass runs approximately north-south and, at its terminus, is the southern-most point of the Asian mainland...

 on 24 July 1945. The operations were supported by the British East Indies Fleet, which defeated a Japanese kamikaze

Kamikaze

The were suicide attacks by military aviators from the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II, designed to destroy as many warships as possible....

 attack on HMS Ameer

HMS Ameer (D01)

The escort carrier USS Baffins was launched 18 October 1942 by Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding, Tacoma, Washington; sponsored by Mrs. Laurence Bennett, wife of Commander Bennett; and commissioned 28 June 1943, Captain W. L. Rees in command...

at the time. However, one ship was lost - the Squirrel, with the loss of seven men.