HMS Cosby
Service
- 20 December 1943 — 4 March 1946622 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Cosby
- Builder
- Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard
- Laid down
- 11 August 1943
- Launched
- 20 October 1943
- Commissioned
- 20 December 1943
- Decommissioned
- 4 March 1946
- Fate
- Sold for scrap on 5 November 1946 (1946)
- 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 Cosby was a frigate of the Buckley-class destroyer escort, operated by the Royal Navy. Her keel was laid at Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard on 11 August 1943. She entered service on 20 December 1943, having been launched on 20 October 1943.
98 ships of the class were built. The class followed the Evarts-class destroyer escort and was succeeded by the Cannon-class destroyer escort.
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 622 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 4 March 1946.
She was broken up for scrap on 5 November 1946.
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
- HMS Bentinck (K314)
- HMS Bligh
- HMS Byron
- HMS Calder (K349)
- HMS Conn
- 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 Cosby on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 8554 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons