HMS Retalick (K555) | |
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The future HMS Retalick (K555) at Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard in Hingham, Massachusetts, on the day she was launched, 9 October 1943. | |
Career | |
Name: | unnamed (DE-90) |
Ordered: | 10 January 1942[1] |
Builder: | Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Hingham, Massachusetts |
Laid down: | 21 July 1943[2] |
Launched: | 9 October 1943[2] |
Completed: | 8 December 1943[2] |
Commissioned: | never |
Fate: | Transferred to United Kingdom 8 December 1943[2] |
Acquired: | Returned by United Kingdom 25 October 1945[2] |
Struck: | 19 December 1945[2] |
Fate: | Sold for scrapping 7 May 1946[2] |
Career (United Kingdom) | |
Class and type: | Captain-class frigate |
Name: | HMS Retalick (K555) |
Namesake: | Captain Richard Retalick ( ? - 1803), British naval officer who was commanding officer of HMS Defiance during the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801[3][4] |
Acquired: | 8 December 1943[1] |
Commissioned: | 8 December 1943[1] |
Fate: | Returned to United States 25 October 1945[2] |
General characteristics | |
Displacement: | 1,400 tons |
Length: | 306 ft (93 m) |
Beam: | 36.75 ft (11.2 m) |
Draught: | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
Propulsion: |
Two Foster-Wheeler Express "D"-type water-tube boilers GE 13,500 shp (10,070 kW) steam turbines and generators (9,200 kW) Electric motors for 12,000 shp (8,900 kW) Two shafts |
Speed: | 24 knots (44 km/h) |
Range: | 5,500 nautical miles (10,200 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h) |
Complement: | 186 |
Sensors and processing systems: |
SA & SL type radars Type 144 series Asdic MF Direction Finding antenna HF Direction Finding Type FH 4 antenna |
Armament: |
3 × 3 in (76 mm) /50 Mk.22 guns 1 x twin Bofors 40 mm mount Mk.I 7-16 x 20 mm Oerlikon guns Mark 10 Hedgehog antisubmarine mortar Depth charges QF 2 pounder naval gun |
Notes: | Pennant number K555 |
HMS Retalick (K555) was a British Captain-class frigate of the Royal Navy in commission during World War II. Originally constructed as a United States Navy Buckley class destroyer escort, she served in the Royal Navy from 1943 to 1945.
Construction and transfer[]
The ship was laid down as the unnamed U.S. Navy destroyer escort DE-90 by Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Inc., in Hingham, Massachusetts, on 21 July 1943 and launched on 9 October 1943.[2] She was transferred to the United Kingdom under Lend-Lease upon completion on 8 December 1943.[2]
Service history[]
Commissioned into service in the Royal Navy under the command of Lieutenant John Studholme Brownrigg, RN, as the frigate HMS Retalick (K555) on 8 December 1943 simultaneously with her transfer, the ship served on patrol and escort duty for the remainder of World War II.[1][2]
The Royal Navy returned Retalick to the U.S. Navy on 25 October 1945.[2]
Disposal[]
The U.S. Navy struck Retalick from its Naval Vessel Register on 19 December 1945. She was sold on 7 May 1946 for scrapping.[2]
References[]
- Navsource Online: Destroyer Escort Photo Archive Retalick (DE-90) HMS Retalick (K-555)
- uboat.net HMS Retalick (K 555)
- Destroyer Escort Sailors Association DEs for UK
- Captain Class Frigate Association HMS Retalick K555 (DE 90)
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