HMS Dominica (K507)
Service
- as Harman (PG-187)23 April 1946 — 27 March 1947
- as HMS Dominica25 January 1944 — 1945586 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Dominica
- Pennant / hull number
- K507
- Namesake
- British name assigned in anticipation of ships transfer to United Kingdom
- Builder
- Walsh-Kaiser Company, Providence, Rhode Island
- Laid down
- 27 July 1943
- Launched
- 14 September 1943
- Commissioned
- 25 January 1944
- Decommissioned
- 1945
- Fate
- Returned to United States, 23 April 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 Dominica was a Colony-class/Tacoma-class frigate built for the United States Navy. She carried the pennant number K507. Walsh-Kaiser Company, Providence, Rhode Island laid her keel on 27 July 1943. She entered service on 25 January 1944, having been launched on 14 September 1943.
She was one of 45 ships of her class.
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 Harman (PG-187) until 27 March 1947. She then passed to the Royal Navy, serving as HMS Dominica from 25 January 1944. She was in commission for 586 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in 1945.
She was transferred on 23 April 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 Antigua (K501)
- HMS Ascension
- HMS Bahamas
- HMS Barbados (K504)
- HMS Caicos
- HMS Cayman
- 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 Dominica (K507) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph A 25639 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 4700-01) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons