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
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. The ships had a diesel–electric powertrain derived from a submarine propulsion system 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.
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.
Construction and career
The ship was laid down on 25 September 1943 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. Inglis escorted convoys along the West Coast of Africa and in the North Atlantic.
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.
Citations
- ↑ 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
- 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.
