Royal Navy — Frigate
K551
HMS Deane
- Displacement
- 1,400 long tons (1,422 t)
- Length
- 93.27 m (306 ft)
- Beam
- 11.2 m (36.7 ft)
- Speed
- 24 knots (44.4 km/h, 27.6 mph)
- Complement
- 186
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
Service
- as HMS Deane26 November 1943 — 4 March 1946646 days of the war
Captain-class frigate
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Deane
- Pennant / hull number
- K551
- Builder
- Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard Inc., Massachusetts, United States
- Laid down
- 30 June 1943
- Launched
- 29 September 1943
- Commissioned
- 26 November 1943
- Fate
- Sold for scrapping on 7 November 1946. (1946)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,400 long tons (1,422 t)
- Length
- 93.27 m (306 ft)
- Beam
- 11.2 m (36.7 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 Deane was a Captain-class frigate built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number K551. Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard Inc., Massachusetts, United States laid her keel on 30 June 1943. Launched on 29 September 1943, she entered service on 26 November 1943.
46 ships of the class were built.
She displaced 1,400 long tons. She measured 93.3 m (306 ft) long with a beam of 11.2 m (37 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 646 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap on 7 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
- Two Foster-Wheeler Express "D"-type water-tube boilers
- GE 13500 shp steam turbines and generators (9,200 kW)
- Electric motors for 12000 shp
- Two shafts
- Armament
- 3 × 3 in /50 Mk.22 guns
- 1 × twin Bofors 40 mm mount Mk.I
- 7–16 × 20 mm Oerlikon guns
- Mark 10 Hedgehog A/S projector
- 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 Cranstoun
- HMS Cubitt
- HMS Curzon (K513)
- HMS Dacres
- HMS Domett
- HMS Drury
- HMS Essington (K353)
- HMS Foley (K474)
- HMS Gardiner
- HMS Garlies
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Deane on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.