HMS Ettrick (K254)
HMS Ettrick
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Ettrick |
Namesake | Ettrick Water |
Ordered | 1 June 1941 |
Builder | Sunderland |
Laid down | 31 December 1941 |
Launched | 25 February 1943 |
Commissioned | 11 July 1943 |
Decommissioned | 29 January 1944 |
Identification | pennant number: K 254 |
Honours and awards | Atlantic 1943[1] |
Fate |
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Canada | |
Name | Ettrick |
Commissioned | 29 January 1944 |
Decommissioned | 30 May 1945 |
Identification | Pennant number: K 254 |
Honours and awards | Atlantic 1944–45[1] Gulf of St. Lawrence 1944[2] |
Fate | Returned to Royal Navy 1945 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | River-class frigate |
Displacement |
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Length | |
Beam | 36.5 ft (11.13 m) |
Draught | 9 ft (2.74 m); 13 ft (3.96 m) (deep load) |
Propulsion | 2 x Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 shafts, reciprocating vertical triple expansion, 5,500 ihp (4,100 kW) |
Speed |
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Range | 646 long tons (656 t; 724 short tons) oil fuel; 7,500 nautical miles (13,890 km) at 15 knots (27.8 km/h) |
Complement | 157 |
Armament |
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HMS Ettrick was a
Ettrick was ordered 1 June 1941 as part of the River-class building programme.
War service
After commissioning and trials, Ettrick was assigned to the
On 29 January 1944, while undergoing a refit at Halifax, Ettrick was commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy. Once the refit was completed, the vessel was assigned to MOEF escort group C-3. She made two round trips to Derry with the group before transferring out to join escort group 27 based out of Halifax. On 14 January 1945, she rammed U-1232 during the defence of convoy BX 141, damaging the submarine's conning tower. The submarine however was able to escape.[5] The ship remained as a local escort until the end of hostilities in Europe. She returned to the United Kingdom in May and was returned to the Royal Navy on 30 May 1945.[3][4]
Postwar service
Following the vessel's return to the Royal Navy, she was converted to a combined operations headquarters ship. The ship however was never recommissioned into the fleet and saw no service in her new capability. In April 1946 Ettrick was laid up at Harwich. The vessel was broken up in 1953 at Grays.[4]
Footnotes
- ^ a b "Battle Honours". Britain's Navy. Retrieved 31 August 2014.
- ^ "Battle Honours 2". Veterans Affairs Canada. Archived from the original on 27 September 2013. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
- ^ a b c d "HMS Ettrick (K254)". uboat.net. Retrieved 31 August 2014.
- ^ ISBN 1551250721.
- ^ a b "HMS, later HMCS Ettrick, frigate". naval-history.net. Retrieved 31 August 2014.
Sources
- Macpherson, Ken; Barrie, Ron. (2002) Warships of Canada's Naval Forces 1910–2002. 3rd Edition. St. Catharines: Vanwell Publishing Limited. ISBN 1-55125-072-1