Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War

Royal Navy — Frigate class

Captain-class frigate

The class in numbers

  • 78 Completed
  • 7 Lost

Design and service

Type
Frigate
Navies
Royal Navy 42
United States Navy 4
Built
1941–1943
Builders
  • Boston Navy Yard, MA (31)
  • Philadelphia Navy Yard, PA (1)
  • Bethlehem-Hingham, MA (46)
Subclasses
GMT (Evarts) Type, TE (Buckley) Type

Class specifications

Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.

As built
Displacement, standard
1,140 long tons (1,158 t)
Length
88.09 m (289 ft)
Speed
24 knots (44.4 km/h, 27.6 mph)
Complement
156
Main gun
76 mm (3 in)
Armament
  • 3 × 3 in (76 mm) /50 Mk.22 guns
  • 1 × twin Bofors 40 mm mount Mk.I
  • 7–16 × 20 mm Oerlikon guns
  • Mark 10 Hedgehog A/S projector
  • 2 x rails, 4 x throwers, up to 200 depth charges
  • QF 2-pounder naval gun

Roster

Holding 46 of the 78 hulls recorded for this class. Vessels transferred to another navy are catalogued under the navy that sailed them and appear there instead.

Vessel Pennant Commissioned Fate
HMS Affleck 1943 Transferred 1945
HMS Aylmer 1943 Scrapped 1947
HMS Balfour 1943 Scrapped 1946
HMS Bayntun K310 1943 Scrapped 1947
HMS Bentley 1943 Scrapped 1947
HMS Berry 1943 Scrapped 1946
HMS Blackwood (K313) K313 1943 Sunk 1944
HMS Braithwaite K468 1943 1946
HMS Bullen 1943 Sunk 1944
HMS Burges (K347) K347 1943 Scrapped 1945
HMS Byard 1943 Scrapped 1946
HMS Capel (K470) K470 1943 Sunk 1944
HMS Cooke 1943 Transferred 1946
HMS Cotton 1943 Scrapped 1946
HMS Cranstoun 1943 Scrapped 1947
HMS Cubitt 1943 Scrapped 1947
HMS Curzon (K513) K513 1943 Scrapped 1946
HMS Dacres 1943 Scrapped 1946
HMS Deane K551 1943 Scrapped 1946
HMS Domett K473 1943 Transferred 1946
HMS Drury K316 1943 Scrapped 1946
HMS Essington (K353) K353 1943 Transferred 1945
HMS Foley (K474) K474 1945 Transferred 1945
HMS Gardiner K478 1943 Transferred 1946
HMS Garlies 1945 Transferred 1945
HMS Goodall DE-275 1943 Sunk 1945
HMS Gore 1943 Transferred 1946
HMS Gould DE-272 1943 Sunk 1944
HMS Grindall K477 1945 Transferred 1945
HMS Hoste (K566) K566 1945 Transferred 1945
HMS Inman K571 1944 Transferred 1946
HMS Keats K482 1943 Transferred 1946
HMS Kempthorne 1945 Transferred
HMS Kingsmill (K484) K484 1945 Transferred 1945
HMS Lawson K516 1943 Transferred 1946
HMS Loring K565 1943 Transferred 1947
HMS Louis (K515) K515 1943 Transferred 1946
HMS Manners (K568) K568 1943 Sunk 1945
HMS Moorsom (K567) K567 1943 Transferred 1945
HMS Mounsey (K569) K569 1943 Transferred 1946
HMS Narborough (K578) K578 1944 Transferred 1946
HMS Pasley (K564) K564 1945 Transferred 1945
HMS Stayner DE-564 1943 Transferred 1945
HMS Torrington (K577) K577 1944 Transferred 1946
HMS Trollope 1944 Sunk 1944
HMS Tyler 1944 Transferred 1945

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