HMS Loring

HMS Loring on 26 August 1944.
History
United States
Name	unnamed (DE-520)
Builder	Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts
Laid down	18 July 1943
Launched	30 August 1943 [1]
Completed	November 1943
Commissioned	never
Fate	Transferred to United Kingdom November 1943 [2]
Acquired	Returned by United Kingdom 7 January 1947
Fate	Sold 25 March 1947 for scrapping [3]
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Loring (K565)
Namesake	Admiral Sir John Wentworth Loring (c. 1775-1852), British naval officer who was commanding officer of HMS Niobe from 1805 to 1813 [4]
Acquired	November 1943 [2]
Commissioned	November 1943 [2]
Decommissioned	1945 [5]
Fate	Returned to United States 7 January 1947
General characteristics
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)
Propulsion	Four General Motors 278A 16-cylinder engines GE 7,040 bhp (5,250 kW) generators (4,800 kW) GE electric motors for 6,000 shp (4,500 kW) Two shafts
Speed	20 knots (37 km/h)
Range	5,000 nautical miles (9,260 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h)
Complement	156
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
Notes	Pennant number K565

HMS Loring (K565) was a British Captain-class frigate of the Royal Navy in commission during World War II. Originally constructed as the United States Navy Evarts-class destroyer escort DE-520, she served in the Royal Navy from 1943 to 1945.

Construction and transfer

The ship was laid down by the Boston Navy Yard in Boston, Massachusetts, on 18 July 1943 as the unnamed U.S. Navy destroyer escort DE-520 and launched on 30 August 1943. ^[1] The United States transferred the ship to the United Kingdom under Lend-Lease upon completion sometime in November 1943; sources vary on the exact date. ^[2]

Service history

The ship was commissioned into service in the Royal Navy as HMS Loring (K565) in November 1943 ^[2] simultaneously with her transfer. She served on patrol and escort duty in the eastern North Atlantic Ocean for the remainder of World War II.

The Royal Navy decommissioned Loring in 1945 ^[5] after the conclusion of the war and returned her to the U.S. Navy while the ship was still in the United Kingdom on 7 January 1947.

Disposal

The United States sold Loring on 25 March 1947 to a Greek shipbreaking firm for scrapping. ^[3]

Citations

1. Per Navsource Online: Destroyer Escort Photo Archive HMS Loring (DE-520 / K-565), the ship was launched on 30 August 1943. The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships: Loring article claims a launch date of 30 July 1943, but this date, only 12 days after 18 July 1943 keel-laying, is not credible as a launch date and probably represents a typographical or clerical error.
2. Sources contradict one another on the date of transfer other than to agree it happened sometime in November 1943. The uboat.net HMS Loring (K 565) page says that the ship's first commanding officer took command on 1 November 1943, which suggests that 1 November 1943 was the transfer date, but also states that the ship's commissioning date in the Royal Navy, which also usually corresponds to the transfer date, was 15 November 1943. Navsource Online: Destroyer Escort Photo Archive HMS Loring (DE-520 / K-565) places the transfer date on 20 November 1943. The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships: Loring article claims a transfer date of 27 November 1943.
3. Navsource Online: Destroyer Escort Photo Archive HMS Loring (DE-520 / K-565)
4. Captain Class Frigate Association HMS Loring K565 (DE 520)
5. Per uboat.net HMS Loring (K 565), the Royal Navy no longer carried Loring on its active list as of October 1945, indicating that she was decommissioned sometime before that.

References

• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships .The entry can be found here.
• Navsource Online: Destroyer Escort Photo Archive HMS Loring (DE-520/K-565)
• uboat.net HMS Loring (K 565)
• Captain Class Frigate Association HMS Loring K565 (DE 520)

External links

• Photo gallery of HMS Loring (K565)