HMS Holmes (K581)
HMS Holmes (K581) was a Captain-class frigate of the Buckley class of destroyer escort, originally intended for the United States Navy. Before she was finished in 1944, she was transferred to the Royal Navy under the terms of Lend-Lease, and was in commission from 1944 to 1945, seeing service during World War II.
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HMS Holmes (K581)
HMS Holmes (K581) was a Captain-class frigate of the Buckley class of destroyer escort, originally intended for the United States Navy. Before she was finished in 1944, she was transferred to the Royal Navy under the terms of Lend-Lease, and was in commission from 1944 to 1945, seeing service during World War II.
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HMS Holmes (K581) was a Captai ...... g service during World War II.
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1944-01-31
1945-12-03
commissioning date
1944-01-31
completion date
1944-01-31
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laying down
1943-10-27
length (μ)
9,32688e+1
ship beam (μ)
1,12014e+1
ship launched
1943-12-18
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Returned to U.S. Navy 3 December 1945
Sold October 1947 for scrapping
Transferred to United Kingdom 31 January 1944
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Ship armament
*3 × 3 in /50 Mk.22 guns
*1 × ...... harges
*QF 2-pounder naval gun
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Ship namesake
Admiral Sir Robert Holmes , En ...... ond and Third Anglo-Dutch Wars
British name assigned in anticipation of transfer to United Kingdom
Ship notes
Pennant number K581
Ship propulsion
*Two Foster-Wheeler Express "D ...... ectric motors for
*Two shafts
Ship renamed
USS Holmes 1943
Ship sensors
*SA & SL type radars
*Type 144 ...... tion Finding Type FH 4 antenna
Ship struck
1946-02-07
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HMS Holmes (K581) was a Captai ...... g service during World War II.
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