HMS Kempthorne
- Displacement
- 1,140 long tons (1,158 t)
- Length
- 88.24 m (289.5 ft)
- Beam
- 10.67 m (35 ft)
- Speed
- 20 knots (37 km/h, 23 mph)
- Complement
- 156
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
Service
- as USS Trumpeter20 August 1945 — 17 October 194513 days of the war
- as HMS Kempthorne31 October 1943 — 20 August 1945662 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Kempthorne
- Builder
- Boston Navy Yard
- Ordered
- 18 January 1942
- Laid down
- 5 June 1943
- Launched
- 17 July 1943
- Commissioned
- 20 August 1945
- Decommissioned
- 17 October 1945
- Fate
- Returned to the US Navy
- 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 Kempthorne was a Captain-class frigate in service with the United States Navy. Boston Navy Yard laid her keel on 5 June 1943. She entered service on 20 August 1945, having been launched on 17 July 1943.
Her class ran to 46 ships.
She displaced 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 Trumpeter until 17 October 1945. She then passed to the Royal Navy, serving as HMS Kempthorne from 31 October 1943. She was in commission for 675 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 17 October 1945.
She was transferred.
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 Kempthorne on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.