HMS Cooke
- Displacement
- 1,140 long tons (1,158 t)
- Length
- 88.24 m (289.5 ft)
- Beam
- 10.67 m (35 ft)
- Speed
- 20 knots (37 km/h, 23 mph)
- Complement
- 156
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
Service
- as USS Dempsey (DE-267)5 March 1946 — 10 June 1947
- as HMS Cooke23 August 1943 — 5 March 1946741 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Cooke
- Namesake
- U.S. Navy Lieutenant, junior grade Richard John Dempsey (1919-1942), killed in action aboard the heavy cruiser USS Vincennes (CA-44) when she was sunk in the Battle of Savo Island
- Builder
- Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts
- Ordered
- 25 January 1942
- Laid down
- 11 March 1943
- Launched
- 22 April 1943
- Commissioned
- 23 August 1943
- Fate
- Returned to United States 5 March 1946 (1946)
- Status
- Unknown
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,140 long tons (1,158 t)
- Length
- 88.24 m (289.5 ft)
- Beam
- 10.67 m (35 ft)
- Draught
- 2.74 m (9 ft)
- Speed
- 20 knots (37 km/h, 23 mph)
- Range
- 5,000 nmi (9,260 km)
- Complement
- 156
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
HMS Cooke was a Captain class frigate of the United States Navy. She was named for U.S. Navy Lieutenant. Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts laid her keel on 11 March 1943. Launched on 22 April 1943, she entered service on 23 August 1943.
She was one of 46 ships of her class.
Displacement was 1,140 long tons. She measured 88.2 m (290 ft) long with a beam of 10.7 m (35 ft). Her designed speed was 20 knots, and she carried a complement of 156.
Her main battery was three 76 mm (3 in) guns.
She served with the United States Navy as USS Dempsey (DE-267) until 10 June 1947. She then passed to the Royal Navy, serving as HMS Cooke from 23 August 1943. She was in commission for 741 days of the Second World War.
She was transferred on 5 March 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
- Four General Motors 278A 16-cylinder engines
- GE 7040 bhp generators (4,800 kW)
- GE electric motors for 6000 shp
- Two shafts
- Armament
- 3 × 3 in /50 Mk.22 guns
- 1 × twin Bofors 40 mm mount Mk.I
- 7–16 × 20 mm Oerlikon guns
- Mark 10 Hedgehog antisubmarine mortar
- Depth charges
- QF 2-pounder naval gun
Sister ships
- HMS Affleck
- 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 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 Cooke on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.