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 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Captain-class frigate on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.