HMS Foley (K474)
Service
- as USS Gillette (DE-270)22 August 1945 — 19 October 194511 days of the war
- as HMS Foley (K474)8 September 1943 — 22 August 1945714 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Foley
- Pennant / hull number
- K474
- Namesake
- U.S. Navy Lieutenant, junior grade Douglas Wiley Gillette (1918-1942), killed in action aboard the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8) in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands in 1942
- Builder
- Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts
- Ordered
- 25 January 1942
- Laid down
- 7 April 1943
- Launched
- 19 May 1943
- Commissioned
- 22 August 1945
- Decommissioned
- 19 October 1945
- Struck
- 1 November 1945
- Fate
- Returned to United States 22 August 1945 (1945)
- Status
- Unknown
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,140 long tons (1,158 t)
- Length
- 88.24 m (289.5 ft)
- Beam
- 10.67 m (35 ft)
- Draught
- 2.74 m (9 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 Foley was a Captain-class frigate built for the United States Navy. She carried the pennant number K474. The ship was named after U.S. Navy Lieutenant. Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts laid her keel on 7 April 1943. She entered service on 22 August 1945, having been launched on 19 May 1943.
She was one of 46 ships of her class.
Displacement was 1,140 long tons. She measured 88.2 m (290 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 three 76 mm (3 in) guns.
She served with the United States Navy as USS Gillette (DE-270) until 19 October 1945. She then passed to the Royal Navy, serving as HMS Foley (K474) from 8 September 1943. She was in commission for 725 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 19 October 1945. She was struck from the register on 1 November 1945.
She was transferred on 22 August 1945.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Four General Motors 278A 16-cylinder engines
- GE 7040 bhp generators (4,800 kW)
- GE electric motors for 6000 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 antisubmarine 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 Cranstoun
- HMS Cubitt
- HMS Curzon (K513)
- HMS Dacres
- HMS Deane
- HMS Domett
- HMS Drury
- HMS Essington (K353)
- HMS Gardiner
- HMS Garlies
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Foley (K474) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//18/media-18266/large.jpg This photograph A 24868 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons