HMS Essington (K353)
Service
- as unnamed (DE-67)19 October 1945 — 5 December 1945
- as HMS Essington (K353)7 September 1943 — 1945726 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Essington
- Pennant / hull number
- K353
- Builder
- Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Hingham, Massachusetts
- Ordered
- 10 January 1942
- Laid down
- 15 March 1943
- Launched
- 19 June 1943
- Commissioned
- 7 September 1943
- Decommissioned
- 1945
- Struck
- 5 December 1945
- Fate
- Returned to United States 19 October 1945 (1945)
- Status
- Unknown
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,400 long tons (1,422 t)
- Length
- 93.27 m (306 ft)
- Beam
- 11.2 m (36.7 ft)
- Draught
- 2.74 m (9 ft)
- Speed
- 24 knots (44.4 km/h, 27.6 mph)
- Range
- 5,500 nmi (10,186 km)
- Complement
- 186
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
HMS Essington was a Captain-class frigate in service with the United States Navy. She carried the pennant number K353. Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Hingham, Massachusetts laid her keel on 15 March 1943. She entered service on 7 September 1943, having been launched on 19 June 1943.
She was one of 46 ships of her class.
She displaced 1,400 long tons. She measured 93.3 m (306 ft) long with a beam of 11.2 m (37 ft). Her designed speed was 24 knots, and she carried a complement of 186.
Her main battery was three 76 mm (3 in) guns.
She served with the United States Navy as unnamed (DE-67) until 5 December 1945. She then passed to the Royal Navy, serving as HMS Essington (K353) from 7 September 1943. She was in commission for 726 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in 1945. She was struck from the register on 5 December 1945.
She was transferred on 19 October 1945.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Two Foster-Wheeler Express "D"-type water-tube boilers
- GE 13500 shp steam turbines and generators (9,200 kW)
- Electric motors for 12000 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 Cooke
- HMS Cotton
- HMS Cranstoun
- HMS Cubitt
- HMS Curzon (K513)
- HMS Dacres
- HMS Deane
- HMS Domett
- HMS Drury
- HMS Foley (K474)
- HMS Gardiner
- HMS Garlies
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Essington (K353) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//19/media-19338/large.jpg This photograph FL 11759 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons