HMS Gore
Service
- as USS Herzog (DE-277)2 May 1946 — 19 November 1946
- as HMS Gore (K481)14 October 1943 — 2 May 1946689 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Gore
- Namesake
- U.S. Navy Lieutenant, junior grade, William Ralph Herzog (1909–1942), killed in action as commander of the Naval Armed Guard aboard SS Pan New York on 29 October 1942
- Builder
- Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts
- Ordered
- 25 January 1942
- Laid down
- 20 May 1943
- Launched
- 8 July 1943
- Commissioned
- 14 October 1943
- Fate
- Returned to United States 2 May 1946 (1946)
- 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)
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
HMS Gore was a Captain-class frigate, operated by the United States Navy. The ship was named after U.S. Navy Lieutenant. Her keel was laid at Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts on 20 May 1943. Launched on 8 July 1943, she entered service on 14 October 1943.
Her class ran to 46 ships.
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.
Her main battery was three 76 mm (3 in) guns.
She served with the United States Navy as USS Herzog (DE-277) until 19 November 1946. She then passed to the Royal Navy, serving as HMS Gore (K481) from 14 October 1943. She was in commission for 689 days of the Second World War.
She was transferred on 2 May 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
- 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 Foley (K474)
- HMS Gardiner
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Gore on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 13520 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons