Royal Navy — Frigate
HMS Bentley
- Displacement
- 1,800 long tons (1,829 t)
- Length
- 93.27 m (306 ft)
- Beam
- 11.13 m (36.5 ft)
- Speed
- 24 knots (44.4 km/h, 27.6 mph)
- Complement
- 170
Service
- 13 October 1943 — 5 November 1945690 days of the war
Captain-class frigate
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Bentley
- Builder
- Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard
- Laid down
- 26 April 1943
- Launched
- 17 July 1943
- Commissioned
- 13 October 1943
- Decommissioned
- 5 November 1945
- Fate
- Sold on 17 June 1947 for scrapping (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 Bentley was a Captain-class frigate of the Royal Navy. Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard laid her keel on 26 April 1943. Launched on 17 July 1943, she entered service on 13 October 1943.
46 ships of the class were built.
She displaced 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 690 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 5 November 1945.
She was broken up for scrap on 17 June 1947.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Sister ships
- HMS Affleck
- HMS Aylmer
- HMS Balfour
- HMS Bayntun
- 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 Bentley on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.