Royal Navy — Frigate
K581
HMS Holmes (K581)
- 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 unnamed3 December 1945 — 7 February 1946
- as HMS Holmes31 January 1944 — 3 December 1945583 days of the war
Buckley-class destroyer escort
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Holmes
- Pennant / hull number
- K581
- Builder
- Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Hingham, Massachusetts
- Laid down
- 27 October 1943
- Launched
- 18 December 1943
- Commissioned
- 31 January 1944
- Struck
- 7 February 1946
- Fate
- Returned to U.S. Navy 3 December 1945 (1945)
- Status
- Unknown
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)
Holmes (DE-572) was launched by Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Hingham, Mass., 18 December 1943. Designated for transfer to Great Britain under Lend-Lease, she was delivered and commissioned by the Royal Navy 31 January 1944. After serving throughout the rest of the war as an escort vessel, she was returned to the United States, stricken, from the Navy List 7 February 1946, and sold to Walter H. Wilms & Co., Detroit, Mich., in October 1947. Holmes was subsequently scrapped.
From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Holmes II (DE-572)). A work of the United States Government, in the public domain.
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 antisubmarine mortar
- Depth charges
- QF 2-pounder naval gun
Sister ships
- HMS Bentinck (K314)
- HMS Bligh
- HMS Byron
- HMS Calder (K349)
- HMS Conn
- HMS Cosby
- HMS Dakins
- HMS Duff (K352)
- HMS Ekins
- HMS Fitzroy (K553)
- HMS Halsted (K556)
- HMS Hargood (K582)
- HMS Hotham (K583)
- HMS Redmill (K554)
- HMS Retalick
- HMS Riou
- HMS Rowley
- HMS Rupert (K561)
- HMS Rutherford
- HMS Seymour (K563)
- HMS Spragge (K572)
- HMS Stockham
- HMS Thornborough
- HMS Waldegrave (K579)
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Holmes (K581) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Service history reproduced verbatim from Holmes II (DE-572) , Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships — public domain, a work of the United States Government.