HMS Tyler

History
United States
Name	unnamed (DE-567)
Builder	Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Hingham, Massachusetts
Laid down	6 October 1943
Launched	20 November 1943
Completed	14 January 1944
Commissioned	never
Fate	Transferred to United Kingdom 14 January 1944
Acquired	Returned by United Kingdom 12 November 1945
Stricken	8 January 1946
Fate	Sold 23 May 1946 for scrapping; Scrapped summer 1946;
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Tyler (K576)
Namesake	Admiral Sir Charles Tyler (1760–1835), British naval officer who was commanding officer of HMS Tonnant at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805
Acquired	14 January 1944
Commissioned	14 January 1944
Decommissioned	1945
Fate	Returned to United States 12 November 1945
General characteristics
Displacement	1,400 long tons (1,422 t)
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 × twin Bofors 40 mm mount Mk.I; 7–16 × 20 mm Oerlikon guns; Mark 10 Hedgehog antisubmarine mortar; Depth charges; QF 2-pounder naval gun;
Notes	Pennant number K576

HMS Tyler (K576) 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 1944 to 1945.