HMS Capel (K470)
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HMS Capel 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.
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Name | Capel |
Builder | Boston Navy Yard |
Laid down | 11 March 1943 |
Launched | 22 April 1943 |
Commissioned | 16 August 1943 |
Fate | Torpedoed and sunk by U-486 near Cherbourg, 26 December 1944 |
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) |
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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 |
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The ship was laid down as USS Wintle (DE-266) on 11 March 1943 by the Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts, and launched on 22 April 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Mary Clyde Wintle. On 14 June 1943 the ship was allocated to the United Kingdom; and she was transferred to the Royal Navy and commissioned as HMS Capel on 16 August 1943. The ship was named after Admiral Sir Thomas Bladen Capel (1776-1853).