HMS Inglis

History
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)
Identification	Pennant number: K566
Fate	Returned to USN, 20 March 1946 and scrapped, September 1947
General characteristics
Class & type	Evarts-class destroyer escort Captain-class frigate
Displacement	1,190 long tons (1,210  t) (standard)
Length	289 ft 5 in (88.2 m)
Beam	35 ft 2 in (10.7 m)
Draught	10 ft 1 in (3.1 m)
Installed power	6,000  shp (4,500  kW) electric motors
Propulsion	2 shafts; 4 diesel engines
Speed	20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Range	6,000  nmi (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement	198
Sensors & processing systems	SA & SL type radars Type 144 series Asdic MF Direction Finding HF Direction Finding
Armament	3 × single 3 in (76 mm)/50 Mk 22 guns 1 × twin Bofors 40 mm 9 × single 20 mm Oerlikon guns 1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar 2 × Depth charge rails and four throwers

HMS Inglis (K570) was a Captain-class frigate in the Royal Navy. Built as USS Inglis (DE-525), an Evarts-class destroyer escort, the ship was transferred to the Royal Navy in 1944 under Lend-Lease.

Description

The Evarts-class ships had an overall length of 289 feet 5 inches (88.2 m), a beam of 35 feet 2 inches (10.7 m), and a draught of 10 feet 1 inch (3.1 m) at full load. They displaced 1,190 long tons (1,210  t ) at (standard) and 1,416 long tons (1,439 t) at full load. ^[1] The ships had a diesel–electric powertrain derived from a submarine propulsion system ^[2] with four General Motors 16-cylinder diesel engines providing power to four General Electric electric generators which sent electricity to four 1,500- shaft-horsepower (1,100  kW ) General Electric electric motors which drove the two propeller shafts. The destroyer escorts had enough power give them a speed of 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) and enough fuel oil to give them a range of 6,000 nautical miles (11,000  km ; 6,900  mi ) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph). Their crew consisted of 198 officers and ratings. ^[3]

The armament of the Evarts-class ships in British service consisted of three single mounts for 50-caliber 3-inch (76 mm)/50 Mk 22 dual-purpose guns; one superfiring pair forward of the bridge and the third gun aft of the superstructure. Anti-aircraft defence was intended to consisted of a twin-gun mount for 40-millimetre (1.6 in) Bofors anti-aircraft (AA) guns atop the rear superstructure with nine 20-millimetre (0.8 in) Oerlikon AA guns located on the superstructure, but production shortages meant that that not all guns were fitted, or that additional Oerlikons replaced the Bofors guns. A Mark 10 Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar was positioned just behind the forward gun. The ships were also equipped with two depth charge rails at the stern and four "K-gun" depth charge throwers. ^[4]

Construction and career

The ship was laid down on 25 September 1943 ^[5] at the Boston Navy Yard in Boston, Massachusetts, for the United States Navy. She was launched on 2 November 1943; accepted and transferred to Great Britain on 12 January 1944. ^[6] Inglis escorted convoys along the West Coast of Africa and in the North Atlantic. ^[7]

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. ^[6]

Citations

1. Whitley, p. 152
2. Friedman, p. 143
3. Lenton, pp. 199–200
4. Friedman, p. 478
5. Lenton, p. 203
6. "Inglis (DE-525)". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Retrieved 7 July 2025.
7. "HMS Inglis (K 570) of the Royal Navy - British Frigate of the Captain class". uboat.net. Retrieved 7 July 2025.

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben & Bush, Steve (2020). Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present (5th revised and updated ed.). Seaforth Publishing. ISBN   978-1-5267-9327-0.
• Friedman, Norman (2005). U.S. Destroyers: An Illustrated Design History (Revised ed.). Naval Institute Press. ISBN   1-55750-442-3.
• Lenton, H. T. (1998). British & Empire Warships of the Second World War. Naval Institute Press. ISBN   1-55750-048-7.
• Rohwer, Jürgen (2005). Chronology of the War at Sea 1939–1945: The Naval History of World War Two (Third Revised ed.). Naval Institute Press. ISBN   1-59114-119-2.
• Whitley, M. J. (2000). Destroyers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia. Cassell & Co. ISBN   1-85409-521-8.

•  This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships .The entry can be found here.