HMS Stockham
Service
- as unnamed (DE-97)31 January 1946 — 12 March 1946
- as HMS Stockham (K572)28 December 1943 — 31 January 1946614 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Stockham
- Builder
- Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Hingham, Massachusetts
- Laid down
- 25 August 1943
- Launched
- 31 October 1943
- Commissioned
- 28 December 1943
- Struck
- 12 March 1946
- Fate
- Returned to United States 31 January 1946 (1946)
- 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)
HMS Stockham was a frigate of the Buckley-class destroyer escort, operated by the United States Navy. Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Hingham, Massachusetts laid her keel on 25 August 1943. Launched on 31 October 1943, she entered service on 28 December 1943.
Her class ran to 98 ships. The class followed the Evarts-class destroyer escort and was succeeded by the Cannon-class destroyer escort.
Displacement was 1,400 long tons. She measured 93.3 m (306 ft) long with a beam of 11.2 m (37 ft). Her designed speed was 24 knots, and she carried a complement of 186.
Her main battery was three 76 mm (3 in) guns.
She served with the United States Navy as unnamed (DE-97) until 12 March 1946. She then passed to the Royal Navy, serving as HMS Stockham (K572) from 28 December 1943. She was in commission for 614 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 12 March 1946.
She was transferred on 31 January 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
- 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 Holmes (K581)
- HMS Hotham (K583)
- HMS Redmill (K554)
- HMS Retalick
- HMS Riou
- HMS Rowley
- HMS Rupert (K561)
- HMS Rutherford
- HMS Seymour (K563)
- HMS Spragge (K572)
- HMS Thornborough
- HMS Waldegrave (K579)
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Stockham on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Beadell, S J (Lt), Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph A 22515 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 4700-01) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons