For other ships with the same name, see USS Duffy.
History
United Kingdom
Name
Dacres
Builder
Boston Navy Yard
Laid down
7 April 1943
Launched
19 May 1943
Commissioned
28 August 1943
Fate
Returned to US Navy, 26 January 1946
Sold for scrapping, 14 December 1946
General characteristics
Type
Captain-class frigate
Displacement
1,140 long tons (1,158 t)
Length
289 ft 5 in (88.21 m)
Beam
35 ft 1 in (10.69 m)
Draught
10 ft 6 in (3.20 m)
Propulsion
4 × General Motors Model 16-278A diesel engines with electric drive, 6,000 shp (4,474 kW)
2 screws
Speed
20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Range
5,000 nmi (9,300 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement
156
Armament
3 × single 3"/50 Mk.22 dual purpose guns
1 × twin 40 mm AA gun
10 × 20 mm AA guns
1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar
4 × depth charge projectors
2 × depth charge tracks
HMS Dacres (K472) was a Captain-class frigate, built in the United States as a Evarts-class destroyer escort, and transferred to the Royal Navy under the terms of Lend-Lease, which served in World War II.
The ship was laid down as Duffy (DE-268) on 7 April 1943 by the Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts, and launched on 19 May 1943. Transferred to the Royal Navy and commissioned as Dacres on 28 August 1943, the ship was named after Vice Admiral James Richard Dacres (1749–1810).
HMSDacres (K472) was a Captain-class frigate, built in the United States as a Evarts-class destroyer escort, and transferred to the Royal Navy under the...
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Greenwich Hospital. Dacres was born in 1804, the son of Captain, later Vice-Admiral, Sir Richard Dacres and Martha Phillips Milligan. The Dacres had a long history...
no suggestion that Dacres and his men had not done their utmost, or that Dacres had been reckless to engage Constitution. Dacres was therefore acquitted...
Barrington's brother James Richard Dacres became a vice-admiral, as did Barrington's uncle Richard Dacres, while his cousin Sydney Dacres became an admiral, and First...
minesweeper HMS Cygnet (H83) UK combat vessel destroyer HMSDacres (K472) UK combat vessel frigate HMS Danae (D44) UK combat vessel light cruiser HMS Decoy (H75)...
1943: HMS Cooke shared credit for sinking U-988 & U-214 1943: HMSDacres Normandy Invasion 1943: HMS Domett shared credit for sinking U-988 1943: HMS Foley...
escorts from the United States. the first ship commissioned of the class was HMS Bayntun on 20 January 1943 total ships in the table: 507DEs + 56APDs 37 Buckleys...
escort transferred to the United Kingdom under Lend-Lease and renamed HMSDacres as a Captain-class frigate. The ship served with the Royal Navy during...
Ellerman Line (converted in 1944). The Royal Navy Captain-class frigates Dacres, Kingsmill and Lawford were converted to headquarters ships ahead of the...
transferred to the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) and became known as RNAS Lossiemouth or HMS Fulmar. Lossiemouth was used as a training station by the FAA until it was...
on HMS Little Belt the year before. Captain John Rodgers of President had mistakenly identified Little Belt as Guerriere, and Captain James Dacres of...
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Jane (née Dacres). His mother was the sister of Vice-Admiral James Richard Dacres (1749–1810) and also of Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Dacres (1761–1837)...
historians as pre-dreadnought battleships. In 1906, the commissioning of HMS Dreadnought into the United Kingdom's Royal Navy heralded a revolution in...
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