United States Navy — Frigate
HMS Affleck
Service
- as Oswald? — June 19431,396 days of the war
- as Affleck29 September 1943 — August 1945700 days of the war
Captain-class frigate
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Affleck
- Builder
- Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard
- Laid down
- 5 April 1943
- Launched
- 30 June 1943
- Commissioned
- 29 September 1943
- Fate
- Returned to the United States Navy in August 1945 (1945)
- Status
- Unknown
Specifications
- Displacement, full load
- 1,800 long tons (1,829 t)
- Length
- 93.27 m (306 ft) OA
- Beam
- 11.13 m (36.5 ft)
- Draught
- 3.35 m (11 ft)
- Speed
- 24 knots (44.4 km/h, 27.6 mph)
- Complement
- 170
HMS Affleck was a Captain-class frigate built for the United States Navy. Her keel was laid at Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard on 5 April 1943. Launched on 30 June 1943, she entered service on 29 September 1943.
She was one of 46 ships of her class.
Displacement was 1,800 long tons. She measured 93.3 m (306 ft) long with a beam of 11.1 m (37 ft). Her designed speed was 24 knots, and she carried a complement of 170.
She served with the United States Navy as Oswald until June 1943. She then passed to the Royal Navy, serving as Affleck from 29 September 1943. She was in commission for 2,096 days of the Second World War.
She was transferred in August 1945.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Sister ships
- HMS Aylmer
- HMS Balfour
- HMS Bayntun
- HMS Bentley
- HMS Berry
- HMS Blackwood (K313)
- HMS Braithwaite
- HMS Bullen
- HMS Burges (K347)
- HMS Byard
- HMS Capel (K470)
- HMS Cooke
- HMS Cotton
- HMS Cranstoun
- HMS Cubitt
- HMS Curzon (K513)
- HMS Dacres
- HMS Deane
- HMS Domett
- HMS Drury
- HMS Essington (K353)
- HMS Foley (K474)
- HMS Gardiner
- HMS Garlies
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Affleck on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Parnall, C H (Lt), Royal Navy official photographer — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//18/media-18209/large.jpg This photograph A 22696 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons