History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Drury |
Builder | Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Laid down | 12 February 1942 |
Launched | 24 July 1942 |
Commissioned | 12 April 1943 |
Renamed |
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Identification | Pennant number K316 |
Fate | Returned to United States Navy on 20 August 1945 |
United States | |
Name | USS Drury |
Commissioned | 20 August 1945 |
Decommissioned | 22 October 1945 |
Stricken | 16 November 1945 |
Fate | Sold for scrapping in June 1946 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Captain-class frigate |
Length | 289.5 ft (88.2 m) |
Beam | 35 ft (11 m) |
Draught | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
Range | 5,000 nmi (9,260 km; 5,750 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 156 |
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Armament |
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HMS Drury was a Captain-class frigate, originally commissioned to be built for the United States Navy as an Evarts-class destroyer escort. Before she was finished in 1942, she was transferred to the Royal Navy under the terms of Lend-Lease, and saw service during the Second World War. She has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to be named Drury, after Captain Thomas Drury, commander of HMS Alfred in the West Indies in 1795.