HMS Keats
- 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 Tisdale (DE-278)27 February 1946 — 20 March 1946
- as HMS Keats19 October 1943 — 27 February 1946684 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Keats
- Pennant / hull number
- K482
- Namesake
- Ryland Dillard Tisdale
- Builder
- Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts
- Ordered
- 25 January 1942
- Laid down
- 5 June 1943
- Launched
- 17 July 1943
- Commissioned
- 19 October 1943
- Struck
- 20 March 1946
- Fate
- Returned to United States 27 February 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 Keats was a Captain-class frigate of the United States Navy. She carried the pennant number K482. The ship was named after Ryland Dillard Tisdale. Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts laid her keel on 5 June 1943. Launched on 17 July 1943, she entered service on 19 October 1943.
Her class ran to 46 ships.
She displaced 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 Tisdale (DE-278) until 20 March 1946. She then passed to the Royal Navy, serving as HMS Keats from 19 October 1943. She was in commission for 684 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 20 March 1946.
She was transferred on 27 February 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 Cooke
- 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
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Keats on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.