HMS Mounsey (K569)
Service
- as unnamed (DE-524)27 February 1946 — 28 March 1946
- as HMS Mounsey (K569)24 December 1943 — February 1946618 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Mounsey
- Pennant / hull number
- K569
- Builder
- Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts
- Laid down
- 14 August 1943
- Launched
- 24 September 1943
- Commissioned
- 24 December 1943
- Decommissioned
- February 1946
- Struck
- 28 March 1946
- Fate
- Returned to United States 25 or 27 February 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)
- Complement
- 156
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
HMS Mounsey was a Captain-class frigate in service with the United States Navy. She carried the pennant number K569. Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts laid her keel on 14 August 1943. Launched on 24 September 1943, she entered service on 24 December 1943.
She was one of 46 ships of her class.
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 unnamed (DE-524) until 28 March 1946. She then passed to the Royal Navy, serving as HMS Mounsey (K569) from 24 December 1943. She was in commission for 618 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in February 1946. She was struck from the register on 28 March 1946.
She was transferred on 27 February 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 Mounsey (K569) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 16484 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons