SAS Good Hope

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For the cancelled 1977 ship named Good Hope, see ARA Drummond (P-31).

HMSAS Good Hope, Loch Class frigate at sea in 1945
History
United Kingdom
NameLoch Boisdale
NamesakeLochboisdale
Ordered28 December 1942
BuilderBlyth Harbour and Dock Company, Blyth, Northumberland
Laid down8 November 1943
Launched5 July 1944
FateTransferred to the South African Navy, 9 November 1944
South Africa
NameGood Hope
NamesakeCape Province
Completed1 December 1944
Acquired9 November 1944
Commissioned9 November 1944
Decommissioned1978
Fate
Scuttled
12 December 1978
General characteristics (as built)
Class and typeLoch-class frigate
Displacement
  • 1,435 long tons (1,458 t) (standard load)
  • 2,260 long tons (2,300 t) (
    deep load
    )
Length307 ft (93.6 m)
Beam38 ft 7 in (11.8 m)
Draught12 ft 4 in (3.8 m)
Installed power
  • 2
    Admiralty 3-drum boilers
  • 5,500 ihp (4,100 kW)
Propulsion
Speed20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Range9,500 nmi (17,600 km; 10,900 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement114
Sensors and
processing systems
Armament

SAS Good Hope (pennant number: F432) was one of three Loch-class frigates in the South African Navy (SAN). It was built as HMS Loch Boisdale (K432) for the Royal Navy during World War II, but was transferred to the SAN before completion in 1944 and renamed as HMSAS Good Hope. The ship was assigned to convoy escort duties in 1945, but did not encounter any enemy ships before the end of the war.

It was assigned to ferry troops home from

Middle Africa in 1948. Upon returning home, Good Hope was placed in reserve until it was converted into a training ship during the mid-1950s and served as the navy's flagship. The ship was again placed in reserve in 1965 and was sold for scrap in 1977. Good Hope's remains were donated for use as an artificial reef and it was scuttled
the following year.

Description

Good Hope displaced 1,435 long tons (1,458 t) at

ASDIC and a Type 277 surface-search radar. Its crew numbered 114 officers and ratings.[2]

In preparation for her reclassification as a

four-inch Mk XVI guns.[4] She was refitted in 1961.[5]

Construction and career

Good Hope was built by

Western Approaches Command; it was damaged during its first mission and required a month to repair the storm damage. Good Hope rejoined the 18th Escort Group which was covering convoys between England and France until the German surrender in May. It was then refitted for tropical duties before sailing for South Africa on 6 June 1945 with its sister ship, Natal, with 29 ex-prisoners of war aboard the sisters. They arrived on 30 June, but Good Hope was not sent to the Far East because the Japanese surrendered before it was ready to go.[7]

Good Hope and her sisters Natal and

hulk was donated to the False Bay Conservation Society for use as an artificial reef.[8] She was scuttled in False Bay on 12 December 1978.[9]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Chesneau, p. 60
  2. ^ a b Lenton, p. 292
  3. ^ du Toit, p. 158
  4. ^ du Toit, pp. 161, 163
  5. ^ Moore, p. 279
  6. ^ Lenton, p. 293
  7. ^ du Toit, pp. 158–59, 166
  8. ^ du Toit, pp. 160–61, 163, 165–66
  9. ^ "Wrecksite – Good Hope Frigate 1944–1978". www.wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 27 October 2016.

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