Royal Navy — Frigate
K468
HMS Braithwaite
Service
- 13 November 1943 — 17 December 1945659 days of the war
Captain-class frigate
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Braithwaite
- Pennant / hull number
- K468
- Builder
- Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard Inc. (Hingham, Massachusetts)
- Laid down
- 10 May 1943
- Launched
- 31 July 1943
- Commissioned
- 13 November 1943
- Decommissioned
- 17 December 1945
- Fate
- Sold June 1946 (1946)
- Status
- Unknown
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 Braithwaite was a Captain-class frigate, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number K468. Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard Inc. (Hingham, Massachusetts) laid her keel on 10 May 1943. Launched on 31 July 1943, she entered service on 13 November 1943.
She was one of 46 ships of her class.
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 659 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 17 December 1945.
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 Bentley
- HMS Berry
- HMS Blackwood (K313)
- 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 Braithwaite on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Claude Henry Parnall — This photograph A 27395 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 4700-01) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons