Royal Navy — Frigate
HMS Aylmer
Service
- 30 September 1943 — 5 November 1945705 days of the war
Captain-class frigate
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Aylmer
- Builder
- Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard
- Laid down
- 12 April 1943
- Launched
- 10 July 1943
- Commissioned
- 30 September 1943
- Decommissioned
- 5 November 1945
- Fate
- Sold 20 June 1947 to Mr. John J. Witto of Staten Island, N.Y. and broken up for scrap (1947)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, full load
- 1,800 long tons (1,829 t)
- Length
- 93.27 m (306 ft) OA
- Beam
- 11.13 m (36.5 ft)
- Draught
- 3.35 m (11 ft)
- Speed
- 24 knots (44.4 km/h, 27.6 mph)
- Complement
- 170
HMS Aylmer was a Captain-class frigate of the Royal Navy. Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard laid her keel on 12 April 1943. She entered service on 30 September 1943, having been launched on 10 July 1943.
46 ships of the class were built.
Displacement was 1,800 long tons. She measured 93.3 m (306 ft) long with a beam of 11.1 m (37 ft). Her designed speed was 24 knots, and she carried a complement of 170.
She was in commission for 705 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 5 November 1945.
She was broken up for scrap on 20 June 1947.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Sister ships
- HMS Affleck
- 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
- HMS Garlies
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Aylmer on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Parnall, C H (Lt), Royal Navy official photographer — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//18/media-18325/large.jpg This photograph A 27205 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons