HMS Trollope
Service
- as unnamed (DE-566)10 October 1944 — 13 November 194434 days of the war
- 10 January 1944 — 6 July 1944178 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Trollope
- Builder
- Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Hingham, Massachusetts
- Laid down
- 29 September 1943
- Launched
- 20 November 1943
- Commissioned
- 10 January 1944
- Struck
- 13 November 1944
- Fate
- Constructive total loss 6 July 1944
Returned to United States 10 October 1944 (1944) - Status
- Wreck
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 Trollope was a Captain-class frigate in service with the United States Navy. Her keel was laid at Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Hingham, Massachusetts on 29 September 1943. She entered service on 10 January 1944, having been launched on 20 November 1943.
Her class ran to 46 ships.
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-566) until 13 November 1944. She then passed to the Royal Navy from 10 January 1944. She was in commission for 212 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 13 November 1944.
She was sunk on 6 July 1944. The wreck survives.
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 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 Trollope on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//7/media-7172/large.jpg This photograph A 25644 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons