HMS Cotton

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Cotton
Builder	Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Hingham, Massachusetts
Laid down	2 June 1943
Launched	21 August 1943
Commissioned	8 November 1943
Decommissioned	5 November 1945
Stricken	3 January 1946
Honours and awards	Atlantic, 1939-1945[1]
Fate	Sold for scrapping, 1946
General characteristics
Class and type	Captain-class frigate
Displacement	1,400 long tons (1,422 t) standard 1,740 long tons (1,768 t) full
Length	306 ft (93 m) o/a 300 ft (91 m) w/l
Beam	36 ft 9 in (11.20 m)
Draught	9 ft (2.7 m)
Propulsion	Turbo-electric 2 × Foster Wheeler Express "D"-type water-tube boilers GE 13,500 shp (10,067 kW) steam turbines and generators (9,200 kW) Electric motors 12,000 shp (8,948 kW) 2 shafts
Speed	24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph)
Range	5,500 nmi (10,200 km) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	186
Electronic warfare & decoys	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 × twin Bofors 40 mm mount Mk.I 7–16 × 20 mm Oerlikon guns Mark 10 Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar Depth charges QF 2-pounder naval gun

HMS Cotton (K510) was a Captain-class frigate of the British Royal Navy that served in World War II. The ship was laid down as a Buckley-class destroyer escort at the Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard at Hingham, Massachusetts on 2 June 1943, with the hull number DE-81, and launched on 21 August 1943. The ship was transferred to the UK under Lend-Lease on 8 November 1943,^[2] and named after Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Cotton, an officer who served in the American Revolutionary, French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.