Captain William Gordon Rutherford (1765-1818), British naval officer who was commanding officer of HMS Swiftsure during the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805[4]
Acquired
16 December 1943[1]
Commissioned
16 December 1943[2][3]
Decommissioned
1945
Identification
Pennant number K558
Honours and awards
Battle honours for Atlantic 1944, English Channel 1944, and North Sea 1944-1945
Fate
Returned to United States 25 October 1945[1]
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
HMS Rutherford (K558) 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 1943 to 1945.
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England. Rutherford studied at St. John's College in Southsea, and entered the Dartmouth Royal Naval College in 1937, spending a year as a cadet on HMS Conway...
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Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880 and was built from the oak timbers of the British Arctic exploration ship HMS Resolute. The 1,300-pound...
in HMS Centurion. John Byron (British); 1764–1766; in HMS Dolphin. Samuel Wallis and Philip Carteret (British); 1766–1768; in HMS Dolphin and HMS Swallow;...
Richards, Bernard (2005-2006) "Turing, Richards and Morphogenesis", The Rutherford Journal, Volume 1. Fossil radiolarian The earliest known radiolaria date...
Industry". historicalrfa.org. Retrieved 21 May 2013. Mason, Geoffrey B. (2004). "HMS Jervis, destroyer". Service Histories of Royal Navy Warships in World War...
Royal Naval College in 1963. He was given command of the maintenance base HMS Defiance in 1989. He became Director of Defence Systems at the Ministry of...
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Archived from the original on 5 September 2013. Retrieved 27 January 2009. Rutherford, A. (2009). "Q&A: Building on paradise". Nature. 457 (7232): 967. Bibcode:2009Natur...
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