HMS Cranstoun
- 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 Cranstoun13 November 1943 — 3 December 1945659 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Cranstoun
- Builder
- Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard
- Laid down
- 9 June 1943
- Launched
- 28 August 1943
- Commissioned
- 13 November 1943
- Decommissioned
- 3 December 1945
- Struck
- 7 February 1946
- Fate
- Sold for scrapping, 20 November 1947 (1947)
- 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 Cranstoun was a Captain-class frigate in service with the Royal Navy. Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard laid her keel on 9 June 1943. She entered service on 13 November 1943, having been launched on 28 August 1943.
She was one of 46 ships of her class.
Displacement was 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 659 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 3 December 1945. She was struck from the register on 7 February 1946.
She was broken up for scrap on 20 November 1947.
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 × 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 Cotton
- 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 Cranstoun on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.