Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
Royal Navy — Frigate

HMS Aylmer

Captain-class frigate

HMS Aylmer
Parnall, C H (Lt), Royal Navy official photographer — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//18/media-18325/large.jpg This photograph A 27205 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate The Royal Navy during the Second World War At Clarence Graving Dock, Liverpool, the ship's company on the fo'c'sle of HMS AYLMER show their satisfaction after she and other ships of the 4th Escort Group had depth charged, shelled, rammed and sunk a U-Boat. Note the damaged stem caused by the ship ramming a U-Boat.

Service

  1. Royal Navy30 September 1943 — 5 November 1945705 days of the war
Captain-class frigate Particulars
Name
HMS Aylmer
Builder
Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard
Laid down
12 April 1943
Launched
10 July 1943
Commissioned
30 September 1943
Decommissioned
5 November 1945
Fate
Sold 20 June 1947 to Mr. John J. Witto of Staten Island, N.Y. and broken up for scrap (1947)
Status
Scrapped

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 Aylmer was a Captain-class frigate of the Royal Navy. Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard laid her keel on 12 April 1943. She entered service on 30 September 1943, having been launched on 10 July 1943.

46 ships of the class were built.

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 was in commission for 705 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 5 November 1945.

She was broken up for scrap on 20 June 1947.

Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.

Sister ships

21 more in the class

Sources

  • Facts harvested from HMS Aylmer 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-18325/large.jpg This photograph A 27205 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons