Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
Royal Navy — Frigate K349

HMS Calder (K349)

Buckley-class destroyer escort

HMS Calder (K349)
U.S. Navy — U.S. National Archives photo BS 85616 from Navsource.org — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate — K349 The U.S. Navy destroyer escorts USS Formoe (DE-58), left, and USS Foss (DE-59) under construction at the Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard, Hingham, Massachusetts (USA), on 20 January 1943. Formoe was transferred to the United Kingdom under the Lend lease act and was renamed HMS Calder (K349).

Service

  1. Royal Navy15 July 1943 — 19 October 1945780 days of the war
Buckley-class destroyer escort Particulars
Name
HMS Calder
Pennant / hull number
K349
Builder
Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard Inc. (Hingham, Massachusetts, USA)
Laid down
11 December 1942
Launched
27 March 1943
Commissioned
15 July 1943
Decommissioned
19 October 1945
Fate
Sold for scrap on 15 January 1948 (1948)
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
2.9 m (9.5 ft)
Speed
24 knots (44.4 km/h, 27.6 mph)
Complement
170

HMS Calder was a frigate of the Buckley-class destroyer escort built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number K349. Her keel was laid at Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard Inc. (Hingham, Massachusetts, USA) on 11 December 1942. She entered service on 15 July 1943, having been launched on 27 March 1943.

She was one of 98 ships of her class. 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 780 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 19 October 1945.

She was broken up for scrap on 15 January 1948.

Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.

Armament and machinery

Armament and machinery
Propulsion
  • 2 boilers, General Electric Turbo-electric drive
  • 2 solid manganese-bronze 3600 lb 3-bladed propellers, 8.5 ft diameter, 7 ft pitch
  • 12,000 hp (8.9 MW)
  • 2 rudders

Sister ships

73 more in the class

Sources

  • Facts harvested from HMS Calder (K349) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
  • Photograph: U.S. Navy — U.S. National Archives photo BS 85616 from Navsource.org — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons