HMS Inglis
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Inglis (DE-525) |
| Launched | 2 November 1943 |
| Fate | Transferred to Royal Navy under Lend-Lease 12 January 1944 |
 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Inglis (K570) |
| Fate | Returned to USA 20 March 1946 and scrapped September 1947 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Evarts-class destroyer escort Captain-class frigate |
| Displacement | 1,140 long tons (1,158 t) |
| Length | 289.5 ft (88.2 m) |
| Beam | 35 ft (11 m) |
| Draught | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
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| Speed | 20 knots (37 km/h) |
| Range | 5,000 nautical miles (9,260 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h) |
| Complement | 156 |
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| Notes | Pennant number K566 |
HMS Inglis (K570) was a Captain-class frigate in the Royal Navy. Built as USS Inglis (DE-525), an Evarts-class destroyer escort, at the Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts, for the United States Navy, she was launched 2 November 1943; accepted and transferred to Great Britain under Lend-Lease 12 January 1944.
This, and other Evarts-class destroyer escorts, formed the Captain class of frigates in the Royal Navy and played a vital part in Allied antisubmarine operations in the Atlantic. The Inglis was returned to the U.S. Navy on 20 March 1946. She was sold to C.B. Baldridge, Bay, Ohio, in September 1947 and subsequently scrapped.
References
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.- "Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, Volume III", Navy Department, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Naval History Division, Washington, D.C., 1968, Library of Congress card no. 60–60198, page 440.
