HMS Deptford (U53)

Aerial view of Deptford in April 1942
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Deptford
Builder	Chatham Dockyard
Laid down	30 April 1934
Launched	5 February 1935
Completed	20 August 1935
Decommissioned	July 1945
Fate	Sold for scrap 3 April 1948
General characteristics
Class and type	Grimsby-class sloop
Displacement	990 long tons (1,010 t) standard
Length	266 ft 3 in (81.15 m) o/a
Beam	36 ft (11.0 m)
Draught	9 ft 6 in (2.90 m) (full load)
Propulsion	Two Admiralty 3-drum water-tube boilers Parsons geared steam turbines Two shafts 2,000 shp (1,500 kW)
Speed	16.5 kn (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph)
Range	6,000 nmi (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	100
Armament	2 × 4.7 in (120 mm) Mark IX guns 1 × QF 3 inch 20 cwt anti-aircraft gun 4 × 3-pounder guns

HMS Deptford was a Grimsby-class sloop of the British Royal Navy. Built at Chatham Dockyard in the 1930s, Deptford was launched in 1935 and commissioned later that year. The ship saw early service on the Persian Gulf station, but the outbreak of the Second World War saw Deptford serving as a convoy escort in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean, sinking a German U-boat in 1941. She survived the war and was scrapped in 1948.