HMS Inglis
| History | |
|---|---|
 United States | |
| Name | USS Inglis (DE-525) |
| Launched | 2 November 1943 |
| Fate | Transferred to Royal Navy under Lend-Lease 12 January 1944 |
 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Inglis (K570) |
| Identification | Pennant number: K566 |
| Fate | Returned to USN, 20 March 1946 and scrapped, September 1947 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Evarts-class destroyer escort Captain-class frigate |
| Displacement | 1,190 long tons (1,210 t) (standard) |
| Length | 289 ft 5 in (88.2 m) |
| Beam | 35 ft 2 in (10.7 m) |
| Draught | 10 ft 1 in (3.1 m) |
| Installed power | 6,000 shp (4,500 kW) electric motors |
| Propulsion | 2 shafts; 4 diesel engines |
| Speed | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Range | 6,000 nmi (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Complement | 198 |
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HMS Inglis (K570) was a Captain-class frigate in the Royal Navy. Built as USS Inglis (DE-525), an Evarts-class destroyer escort, the ship was transferred to the Royal Navy in 1944 under Lend-Lease.
Description
[edit]The Evarts-class ships had an overall length of 289 feet 5 inches (88.2 m), a beam of 35 feet 2 inches (10.7 m), and a draught of 10 feet 1 inch (3.1 m) at full load. They displaced 1,190 long tons (1,210 t) at (standard) and 1,416 long tons (1,439 t) at full load.[1] The ships had a diesel–electric powertrain derived from a submarine propulsion system[2] with four General Motors 16-cylinder diesel engines providing power to four General Electric electric generators which sent electricity to four 1,500-shaft-horsepower (1,100 kW) General Electric electric motors which drove the two propeller shafts. The destroyer escorts had enough power give them a speed of 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) and enough fuel oil to give them a range of 6,000 nautical miles (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph). Their crew consisted of 198 officers and ratings.[3]
The armament of the Evarts-class ships in British service consisted of three single mounts for 50-caliber 3-inch (76 mm)/50 Mk 22 dual-purpose guns; one superfiring pair forward of the bridge and the third gun aft of the superstructure. Anti-aircraft defence was intended to consisted of a twin-gun mount for 40-millimetre (1.6 in) Bofors anti-aircraft (AA) guns atop the rear superstructure with nine 20-millimetre (0.8 in) Oerlikon AA guns located on the superstructure, but production shortages meant that that not all guns were fitted, or that additional Oerlikons replaced the Bofors guns. A Mark 10 Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar was positioned just behind the forward gun. The ships were also equipped with two depth charge rails at the stern and four "K-gun" depth charge throwers.[4]
Construction and career
[edit]The ship was laid down on 25 September 1943[5] at the Boston Navy Yard in Boston, Massachusetts, for the United States Navy. She was launched on 2 November 1943; accepted and transferred to Great Britain on 12 January 1944.[6] Inglis escorted convoys along the West Coast of Africa and in the North Atlantic.[7]
Inglis was returned to the U.S. Navy on 20 March 1946. She was sold to C.B. Baldridge, Bay, Ohio, in September 1947 and subsequently scrapped.[6]
Citations
[edit]- ↑ Whitley, p. 152
- ↑ Friedman, p. 143
- ↑ Lenton, pp. 199–200
- ↑ Friedman, p. 478
- ↑ Lenton, p. 203
- 1 2 "Inglis (DE-525)". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Retrieved 7 July 2025.
- ↑ "HMS Inglis (K 570) of the Royal Navy - British Frigate of the Captain class". uboat.net. Retrieved 7 July 2025.
References
[edit]- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben & Bush, Steve (2020). Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present (5th revised and updated ed.). Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5267-9327-0.
- Friedman, Norman (2005). U.S. Destroyers: An Illustrated Design History (Revised ed.). Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-442-3.
- Lenton, H. T. (1998). British & Empire Warships of the Second World War. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-048-7.
- Rohwer, Jürgen (2005). Chronology of the War at Sea 1939–1945: The Naval History of World War Two (Third Revised ed.). Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-119-2.
- Whitley, M. J. (2000). Destroyers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia. Cassell & Co. ISBN 1-85409-521-8.
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
