HMS Antigua (K501)
Service
- as USS Hamond2 May 1946 — 4 November 1943
- as HMS Antigua (K501)4 November 1943 — 1945668 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Antigua
- Pennant / hull number
- K501
- Namesake
- British name assigned in anticipation of ships transfer to United Kingdom
- Builder
- Walsh-Kaiser Company, Providence, Rhode Island
- Laid down
- 3 April 1943
- Launched
- 26 July 1943
- Commissioned
- 4 November 1943
- Decommissioned
- 1945
- Fate
- Returned to United States, 2 May 1946 (1946)
- Status
- Unknown
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,264 long tons (1,284 t)
- Length
- 92.35 m (303 ft)
- Beam
- 11.28 m (37 ft)
- Draught
- 3.96 m (13 ft)
- Speed
- 20 knots (37 km/h, 23 mph)
- Complement
- 190
- Main gun
- 40 mm (1.6 in)
HMS Antigua was a Colony-class frigate/Tacoma-class frigate in service with the United States Navy. She carried the pennant number K501. Her keel was laid at Walsh-Kaiser Company, Providence, Rhode Island on 3 April 1943. Launched on 26 July 1943, she entered service on 4 November 1943.
Her class ran to 45 ships.
Displacement was 1,264 long tons. She measured 92.3 m (303 ft) long with a beam of 11.3 m (37 ft). Her designed speed was 20 knots, and she carried a complement of 190.
Her main battery was four 40 mm (1.6 in) guns in two twin mountings.
She served with the United States Navy as USS Hamond until 4 November 1943. She then passed to the Royal Navy, serving as HMS Antigua (K501) from 4 November 1943. She was in commission for 668 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in 1945.
She was transferred on 2 May 1946.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 3 × boilers
- 2 × turbines, 5500 shp each
- 2 shafts
- Armament
- 3 × single 3-inch/50 cal. AA guns
- 2 × twin 40 mm guns
- 9 × single 20 mm
- 1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar
- 8 × Y-gun depth charge projectors
- 2 × depth charge racks
Sister ships
- HMS Anguilla
- HMS Ascension
- HMS Bahamas
- HMS Barbados (K504)
- HMS Caicos
- HMS Cayman
- HMS Dominica (K507)
- HMS Gold Coast (K584)
- HMS Hong Kong (K585)
- HMS Labuan
- HMS Montserrat
- HMS Nyasaland
- HMS Papua
- HMS Perim
- HMS Pitcairn
- HMS Sarawak
- HMS Seychelles
- HMS Sierra Leone (K593)
- HMS Somaliland
- HMS St. Helena
- HMS Tobago (K585)
- HMS Tortola
- HMS Zanzibar
- USS Hallowell (PF-72)
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Antigua (K501) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 821 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons