DE-565
HMS Thornborough K-574

Type:
Destroyer Escort (USN)
Frigate (RN)
Class:
Buckley (USN)
Captain (RN)
Builder:
Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard Inc.
Hingham, Massachusetts
Hull Number:
DE-565 (USN)
K-574 (RN)
Ordered:
1942
Commissioned:
December 31, 1943 (RN)
Keel Laid:
September 22, 1943
Decommissioned:
January 29, 1947 (RN)
Launched:
November 13, 1943
Stricken:


N/A
Fate:
Returned to the USN Jan. 29, 1947.
Sold for scrap Apr. 24, 1947.


Dimensions, machinery and performance

Length:
306'
Engines:
2 General Electric turbo-electric dive
Beam:
36' 9"
Boilers:
2 D Express type
Draft:
10' 6"
Shafts:
2
Displacement:
1,400 std. / 1,740 full
SHP:
12,000
Speed:
24
Crew:
186
Range:
4,940 NM @ 12 knots


Notes
Laid down as DE-565 but never named or commissioned in US Navy.
Leased to the United Kingdom.


Class Overview
Builder's Data
Page published Jan. 2, 2007