HMS Loring
Service
- as unnamed (DE-520)7 January 1947 — 27 March 1947
- as HMS Loring (K565)November 1943 — October 1945671 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Loring
- Pennant / hull number
- K565
- Builder
- Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts
- Laid down
- 18 July 1943
- Launched
- 30 August 1943
- Commissioned
- November 1943
- Decommissioned
- October 1945
- Fate
- Returned to United States, 7 January 1947 (1947)
- Status
- Unknown
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,190 long tons (1,209 t)
- Length
- 88.09 m (289 ft)
- Beam
- 10.67 m (35 ft)
- Draught
- 3.05 m (10 ft)
- Speed
- 20 knots (37 km/h, 23 mph)
- Range
- 6,000 nmi (11,112 km)
- Complement
- 198
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
HMS Loring was a Captain-class frigate in service with the United States Navy. She carried the pennant number K565. Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts laid her keel on 18 July 1943. Launched on 30 August 1943, she entered service in November 1943.
Her class ran to 46 ships.
She displaced 1,190 long tons. She measured 88.1 m (289 ft) long with a beam of 10.7 m (35 ft). Her designed speed was 20 knots, and she carried a complement of 198.
Her main battery was three 76 mm (3 in) guns. Her machinery developed 6,000 shp through two shafts.
She served with the United States Navy as unnamed (DE-520) until 27 March 1947. She then passed to the Royal Navy, serving as HMS Loring (K565) from November 1943. She was in commission for 671 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in October 1945.
She was transferred on 7 January 1947.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 shafts; 4 diesel engines
- Power
- 6000 shp electric motors
- Armament
- 3 × single 3 in/50 Mk 22 guns
- 1 × twin Bofors 40 mm
- 9 × single 20 mm Oerlikon guns
- 1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar
- 2 × Depth charge rails and four throwers
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 Loring on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 14933 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons