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LA PLACE frigates (1944-1945/1947)

Forsyth 1945

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
La Place (ex-Lorain) F13, 1950- F713 846 American SB, Lorain, USA 10.1943 18.3.1944 1.1945 // 26.3.1947 sunk 16.9.1950
Mermoz (ex-Muskegon) F14, 1950- F714 21 Walter Butler, Superior, USA 5.1943 25.7.1943 2.1944 // 26.3.1947 BU ~1958
Le Brix (ex-Manitowoc) F15, 1950- F715 115 Globe, Duluth, USA 8.1943 30.11.1943 12.1944 // 25.3.1947 BU 1958
Le Verrier (ex-Emporia) F16, 1950- F716 25 Walter Butler, Superior, USA 7/1943 30.8.1943 10.1944 // 26.3.1947 BU 1958
  

Displacement standard, t

1509

Displacement full, t

2238

Length, m

87.0 wl 92.6 oa

Breadth, m

11.4

Draught, m

3.86

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 3 boilers

Power, h. p.

5500

Max speed, kts

20

Fuel, t

oil 768

Endurance, nm(kts) 9500 (12)

Armament

2 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 20/21, 2 x 2 - 40/56 Mk 1.2, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 10 ASWRL, 8 DCT, 2 DCR (100), balloons

Electronic equipment

SA, SL radars, QGA sonar

Complement

176

Project history: Former USN frigates of Tacoma class, converted to weather ships, but classified as frigates

Modernizations: 1948, all: mostly disarmed

Naval service: La Place was stricken by German magnetic mine during a storm 16.9.1950 being anchored off St. Malo.

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