Royal Navy — Frigate class
River-class frigate
The class in numbers
- 30 Planned
- 151 Completed
- 2 Cancelled
- 5 Lost
- 4 Preserved
Design and service
- Type
- Frigate
- Navies
- Royal Navy 12
United States Navy 2
Royal Canadian Navy 1 - In commission
- 1942
- Succeeded by
- Loch-class frigate
- Operators
- World War II:, United Kingdom, Canada, Free France, Netherlands, South Africa, United States, Post–World War II, Argentina, Ceylon; (later, the ), Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Malaysia, Morocco, Norway, Portugal
- Subclasses
- RN group I, RN group II, RAN group I, RAN group II, RCN group
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
RN group I
- Displacement, standard
- 1,370 long tons (1,392 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,830 long tons (1,859 t)
- Length
- 91.82 m (301.2 ft) OA
- Speed
- 20.5 knots (38 km/h, 23.6 mph)
- Complement
- 107
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
- Armament
- 2 × QF 4 in/40 Mk.XIX guns, single mounts CP Mk.XXIII
- Up to 10 × QF 20 mm Oerlikon A/A on twin mounts Mk.V and single mounts Mk.III
- 1 × Hedgehog 24 spigot A/S projector
- 8 × depth charge throwers, 2 × rails, Up to 150 depth charges
RN group II
RCN group
- Displacement, standard
- 1,445 long tons (1,468 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 2,110 long tons (2,144 t)
- Complement
- 157
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
- Armament
- 2 × QF 4 in XVI guns on twin mount HA/LA Mk.XIX
- 1 × QF 12-pdr 12 cwt (3 in) Mk. V gun on mounting HA/LA Mk.IX (not all ships)
- 8 × 20 mm QF Oerlikon A/A on twin mounts Mk.V
- 1 × Hedgehog 24 spigot A/S projector
- Up to 150 depth charges
RAN group I
- Displacement, standard
- 1,420 long tons (1,443 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 2,020 long tons (2,052 t)
- Complement
- 140
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
- Armament
- 2 × QF 4 in Mk.XVI guns, single mounts HA/LA Mk.XX
- 8 × QF 20 mm Oerlikon, single mounts Mk.III, later
- 3 × QF 40 mm Bofors, single mounts Mk.VII
- 4 × QF 20 mm Oerlikon, twin mounts Mk.V
- 1 × Hedgehog 24 spigot A/S projector
- Up to 50 depth charges
RAN group II
- Displacement, standard
- 1,545 long tons (1,570 t)
- Complement
- 177
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
- Armament
- 4 × QF 4 in Mk.XVI guns, twin mounts HA/LA Mk.XIX
- 3 × QF 40 mm Bofors, single mounts Mk.VII
- 4 × QF 20 mm Oerlikon, twin mounts Mk.V
- 1 × Hedgehog 24 spigot A/S projector
- Up to 50 depth charges
Roster
Holding 15 of the 151 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HMCS Annan (K297) | K297 | 1942 | Scrapped 1949 |
| HMCS Hallowell (K666) | K666 | 1944 | |
| HMS Aire | 1943 | Wrecked 1946 | |
| HMS Annan (K297) | K297 | 1942 | Scrapped 1949 |
| HMS Avon (K97) | K97 | 1943 | Scrapped 1972 |
| HMS Fal (K266) | K266 | 1943 | Preserved |
| HMS Findhorn | 1943 | Transferred 1946 | |
| HMS Itchen (K227) | K227 | 1942 | Sunk 1943 |
| HMS Jed (1942) | 1942 | 1942 | Scrapped 1957 |
| HMS Lagan | 1942 | Scrapped 1943 | |
| HMS Mourne | 1943 | Sunk 1944 | |
| HMS Ness (1942) | 1942 | 1942 | Scrapped 1956 |
| HMS Tavy | 1943 | Scrapped 1956 | |
| HMS Tweed (K250) | K250 | 1943 | Sunk 1944 |
| UBS Mayu | 1943 | Preserved |
Sources
- Facts harvested from River-class frigate on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.