Royal Navy — Frigate
HMS Cotton
- Displacement
- 1,400 long tons (1,422 t)
- Length
- 93.27 m (306 ft)
- Beam
- 10.97 m (36 ft)
- Speed
- 24 knots (44.4 km/h, 27.6 mph)
- Complement
- 186
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
Service
- as HMS Cotton8 November 1943 — 5 November 1945664 days of the war
Captain-class frigate
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Cotton
- Builder
- Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Hingham, Massachusetts
- Laid down
- 2 June 1943
- Launched
- 21 August 1943
- Commissioned
- 8 November 1943
- Decommissioned
- 5 November 1945
- Struck
- 3 January 1946
- Fate
- Sold for scrapping, 1946 (1946)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,400 long tons (1,422 t)
- Length
- 93.27 m (306 ft) OA
- Beam
- 10.97 m (36 ft)
- Draught
- 2.74 m (9 ft)
- Speed
- 24 knots (44.4 km/h, 27.6 mph)
- Range
- 5,500 nmi (10,186 km)
- Complement
- 186
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
HMS Cotton was a Captain-class frigate of the Royal Navy. Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Hingham, Massachusetts laid her keel on 2 June 1943. Launched on 21 August 1943, she entered service on 8 November 1943.
She was one of 46 ships of her class.
She displaced 1,400 long tons. She measured 93.3 m (306 ft) long with a beam of 11.0 m (36 ft). Her designed speed was 24 knots, and she carried a complement of 186.
Her main battery was three 76 mm (3 in) guns.
She was in commission for 664 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 5 November 1945. She was struck from the register on 3 January 1946.
She was broken up for scrap in 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
- Turbo-electric
- 2 × Foster Wheeler Express "D"-type water-tube boilers
- GE 13500 shp steam turbines and generators (9,200 kW)
- Electric motors 12000 shp
- 2 shafts
- Armament
- 3 × 3 in (76 mm) /50 Mk.22 guns
- 1 × twin Bofors 40 mm mount Mk.I
- 7–16 × 20 mm Oerlikon guns
- Mark 10 Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar
- Depth charges
- QF 2-pounder naval gun
Sister ships
- HMS Affleck
- HMS Aylmer
- HMS Balfour
- HMS Bayntun
- HMS Bentley
- HMS Berry
- HMS Blackwood (K313)
- HMS Braithwaite
- HMS Bullen
- HMS Burges (K347)
- HMS Byard
- HMS Capel (K470)
- HMS Cooke
- 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 Cotton on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.