HMS Byron
Service
- 30 October 1943 — 24 November 1945675 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Byron
- Builder
- Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard
- Laid down
- 24 May 1943
- Launched
- 14 August 1943
- Commissioned
- 30 October 1943
- Decommissioned
- 24 November 1945
- Fate
- Struck from the Navy list and sold for scrap on 25 October 1947 (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 Byron was a frigate of the Buckley-class destroyer escort of the Royal Navy. Her keel was laid at Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard on 24 May 1943. Launched on 14 August 1943, she entered service on 30 October 1943.
Her class ran to 98 ships. The class followed the Evarts-class destroyer escort and was succeeded by the Cannon-class destroyer escort.
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 675 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 24 November 1945.
She was broken up for scrap on 25 October 1947.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Sister ships
- HMS Bentinck (K314)
- HMS Bligh
- HMS Calder (K349)
- HMS Conn
- HMS Cosby
- HMS Dakins
- HMS Duff (K352)
- HMS Ekins
- HMS Fitzroy (K553)
- HMS Halsted (K556)
- HMS Hargood (K582)
- HMS Holmes (K581)
- HMS Hotham (K583)
- HMS Redmill (K554)
- HMS Retalick
- HMS Riou
- HMS Rowley
- HMS Rupert (K561)
- HMS Rutherford
- HMS Seymour (K563)
- HMS Spragge (K572)
- HMS Stockham
- HMS Thornborough
- HMS Waldegrave (K579)
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Byron 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-18375/large.jpg This photograph A 28521 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons