HMS Dacres

Captain-class frigate

Service

Royal Navy as Dacres28 August 1943 — 26 January 1946736 days of the war

Captain-class frigate Particulars

Name: HMS Dacres
Builder: Boston Navy Yard
Laid down: 7 April 1943
Launched: 19 May 1943
Commissioned: 28 August 1943
Fate: Returned to US Navy, 26 January 1946
Sold for scrapping, 14 December 1946 (1946)
Status: Scrapped

Specifications

Displacement, standard: 1,140 long tons (1,158 t)
Length: 88.09 m (289 ft)
Beam: 10.67 m (35 ft)
Draught: 3.05 m (10 ft)
Speed: 20 knots (37 km/h, 23 mph)
Range: 5,000 nmi (9,260 km)
Complement: 156
Main gun: 76 mm (3 in)

HMS Dacres was a Captain-class frigate in service with the Royal Navy. Boston Navy Yard laid her keel on 7 April 1943. She entered service on 28 August 1943, having been launched on 19 May 1943.

46 ships of the class were built.

Displacement was 1,140 long tons. She measured 88.1 m (289 ft) long with a beam of 10.7 m (35 ft). Her designed speed was 20 knots, and she carried a complement of 156. Her main battery was of 76 mm (3.0 in) calibre.

She was in commission for 736 days of the Second World War.

She was broken up for scrap on 26 January 1946.

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

Armament and machinery

Propulsion: 4 × General Motors Model 16-278A diesel engines with electric drive, 6000 shp
2 screws
Armament: 3 × single 3"/50 Mk.22 dual purpose guns
1 × twin 40 mm AA gun
10 × 20 mm AA guns
1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar
4 × depth charge projectors
2 × depth charge tracks

Sister ships

21 more in the class

Sources

Facts harvested from HMS Dacres on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 9065 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons