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"CAPTAIN" 1st group frigates (ex-US "GMT" class) (1943 - 1944)

USN Bebas 1944

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Bayntun (ex-BDE1) K310   Boston NYd, USA 5.1942 27.6.1942 2.1943 to USA 8.1945
Bazely (ex-BDE2) K311   Boston NYd, USA 4.1942 27.6.1942 2/1943 to USA 8.1945
Berry (ex-BDE3) K312   Boston NYd, USA 9.1942 23.11.1942 3/1943 to USA 2.1946
Blackwood (ex-BDE4) K313   Boston NYd, USA 9.1942 23.11.1942 3/1943 sunk 15.6.1944
Burges (ex-BDE12) K347   Boston NYd, USA 12.1942 26.1.1943 6/1943 to USA 2.1946
Capel (ex-Wintle) K470   Boston NYd, USA 3/1943 22.4.1943 8/1943 sunk 26.12.1944
Cockburn (ex-Drury, ex-BDE46) K316   Boston NYd, USA 2.1942 24.7.1942 4/1943 to USA 8.1945 (Drury)
Cooke (ex-Dempsey) K471   Boston NYd, USA 3/1943 22.4.1943 8/1943 to USA 3.1946
Dacres (ex-Duffy) K472   Boston NYd, USA 4.1943 14.5.1943 8/1943 to USA 1.1946
Domett (ex-Eisner) K473   Boston NYd, USA 4.1943 3.9.1943 9/1943 to USA 3.1946
Foley (ex-Gillette) K474   Boston NYd, USA 4.1943 19.5.1943 9/1943 to USA 8.1945
Gardiner (ex-O'Toole) K478   Boston NYd, USA 5/1943 8.7.1943 9/1943 to USA 2.1946
Garlies (ex-Fleming) K475   Boston NYd, USA 4/1943 19.5.1943 9/1943 to USA 8.1945
Goodall (ex-Reybold) K479   Boston NYd, USA 5/1943 8.7.1943 10/1943 sunk 29.4.1945
Goodson (ex-George) K480   Boston NYd, USA 5.1943 8.7.1943 10/1943 CTL 25.6.1944
Gore (ex-Herzog) K481   Boston NYd, USA 5/1943 8.7.1943 10/1943 to USA 5.1946
Gould (ex-Lovering) K476   Boston NYd, USA 4.1943 4.6.1943 9/1943 sunk 1.3.1944
Grindall (ex-Sanders) K477   Boston NYd, USA 4.1943 4.6.1943 9/1943 to USA 8.1945
Inglis (ex-DE525) K570   Boston NYd, USA 9.1943 2.11.1943 12/1943 to USA 3.1946
Inman (ex-DE526) K571   Boston NYd, USA 9.1943 2.11.1943 1/1944 to USA 3.1946
Keats (ex-Tisdale) K482   Boston NYd, USA 5.1943 17.7.1943 10/1943 to USA 2.1946
Kempthorne (ex-Trumpeter) K483   Boston NYd, USA 6.1943 17.7.1943 10/1943 to USA 8.1945
Kingsmill (ex-DE280) K484   Boston NYd, USA 7.1943 13.8.1943 10/1943 to USA 8.1945
Lawford (ex-DE516) K514   Boston NYd, USA 7.1943 13.8.1943 11/1943 sunk 8.6.1944
Lawson (ex-DE518) K516   Boston NYd, USA 7.1943 13.8.1943 11/1943 to USA 3.1946
Pasley (ex-Lindsay, ex-DE519) K564   Boston NYd, USA 7.1943 30.8.1943 11/1943 to USA 3.1946
Loring (ex-DE520) K565   Boston NYd, USA 7.1943 30.8.1943 11/1943 to USA 1.1947
Louis (ex-DE517) K515   Boston NYd, USA 7.1943 9.11.1943 11/1943 to USA 3.1946
Manners (ex-DE523) K568   Boston NYd, USA 8.1943 17.12.1943 12/1943 CTL 26.1.1945
Hoste (ex-Mitchell, ex-DE521) K566   Boston NYd, USA 8.1943 24.9.1943 12/1943 to USA 8.1945
Moorsom (ex-DE522) K567   Boston NYd, USA 8.1943 11.12.1943 12/1943 to USA 10.1945
Mounsey (ex-DE524) K569   Boston NYd, USA 8.1943 24.9.1943 12/1943 to USA 2.1946

 

Displacement standard, t

1192

Displacement full, t

1416

Length, m

86.4 wl 88.2 oa

Breadth, m

10.7

Draught, m

3.07 deep load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

4 General Motors diesel-generators, 2 electric motors

Power, h. p.

6000

Max speed, kts

19.5

Fuel, t

diesel oil 131 - 197

Endurance, nm(kts)

5000(15)

Armament

3 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 20, 10 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk 4, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 10 ASWRL, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (160)

Bayntun, Bazely, Berry, Blackwood, Burges, Drury: 3 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 20, 1 x 2 - 40/56 Bofors Mk 1.2, 8 x 1  - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk 4, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 10 ASWRL, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (160)

Sensors

presumably SC-2, SL radars, QGA sonar

Complement

156

Project history: USN destroyer escorts of Evarts class, transferred to Britain by lend-lease in 1943. They were classified as frigates of "Captain" class in Royal Navy and received names of naval officers of Napoleonic wars. Originally destroyer escorts were designed for deliveries to Britain, but soon the USA began to build the same ships and for themselves. On early design stages it was supposed to use modified design of "Hunt" class escort destroyer, however this idea have quickly refused. Flush-decked, with the big sheer, all-welded, with two rudders. There were some variants of the ship differing only by machinery, artillery and hull dimensions (so-called "long hull" and "short hull"). Under the specification they would had triple 533mm TT, but it was removed right after acceptance by RN, and frigates of delivery in 1944 at all were not completed with it. During service of the first ships their excessive stability conducting to a choppy rocking from which the crew strongly suffered has come to light. This lack was fixed simply enough: additional stock of DCs (160 instead of 100) was placed on upper deck, that has made a rocking of much smoother.

Modernizations: 1944 - 1945, most survived without Boforses: - 2 x 1 - 20/70; + 1 x 2 - 40/56 Bofors Mk 1.2, (0 - 5) - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV. Ships can carry 2 Mk10* DC (stowage of usual DCs was decreased to 16).

6/1944, Lawford: - 1 x 1 - 76/50, 1 x 2 - 40/56, SC-2, SL radars; + 5 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV (15 at all), SU, type 272 radars, HQ facilities

1/1946: Cooke, Dacres, Domett, Gardiner, Gore, Inglis, Inman, Keats, Lawson, Pasley, Loring, Louis, Mounsey: 3 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 21, 1 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 8 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 10 ASWRL, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (160), SC-2, SL radars, QGA sonar

1/1946, Berry, Burges: 3 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 21, 1 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 8 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 10 ASWRL, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (160), SC-2, SL radars, QGA sonar

Naval service: Gould was sunk in Atlantic 1.3.1944 by German submarine U358; Lawford was sunk at coast of Normandy 8.6.1944 by German Do 217 bomber; Blackwood was sunk in La Manche 15.6.1944 by German submarine U764; Capel at Cherbourg 26.12.1944 by German submarine U486; Goodall in Barents sea 29.4.1945 by U968; Bullen NW of Scotland 6.12.1944 by U775.

    Goodson was damaged 25.6.1944 by German submarine U984 (CTL); Manners by U1172 26.1.1945 (CTL).

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