Royal Navy — Destroyer escort
PF-80
USS Harvey (PF-80)
- Displacement
- 1,264 long tons (1,284 t)
- Length
- 92.35 m (303 ft)
- Beam
- 11.28 m (37 ft)
- Speed
- 20 knots (37 km/h, 23 mph)
- Complement
- 190
- Main gun
- 40 mm (1.6 in)
Service
- as Harvey13 May 1946 — 9 July 1957
- as HMS Labuan5 February 1944 — 13 May 1946575 days of the war
Colony-class frigate/Tacoma-class patrol frigate
Particulars
- Name
- USS Harvey
- Pennant / hull number
- PF-80
- Namesake
- British name assigned in anticipation of ships transfer to United Kingdom
- Builder
- Walsh-Kaiser Company, Providence, Rhode Island
- Laid down
- 7 August 1943
- Launched
- 21 September 1943
- Commissioned
- 5 February 1944
- Fate
- Returned to United States 13 May 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)
Harvey (PF-80) (q.v.) was renamed HMS Gold Coast upon transfer to the United Kingdom under lend-lease on 5 February 1944. As one of the 21 "Colony" class British frigates, she served the Royal Navy as HMS Labuan. Returned to the custody of the U.S. Navy on 2 May 1946, she was sold for scrapping on 9 July 1947.
From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Labuan (PF-80)). A work of the United States Government, in the public domain.
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 Bofors 40 mm guns
- 9 × single Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
- 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 Dominica (K507)
- 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
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Harvey (PF-80) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Service history reproduced verbatim from Labuan (PF-80) , Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships — public domain, a work of the United States Government.