HMS Byron

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U-1009 surrenders at Loch Eriboll Scotland 1945 IWM A 28521.jpg
HMS Byron, background, escorts surrendering German submarine U-1009 into Loch Eriboll, Scotland, May 1945
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Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svgUnited Kingdom
Builder Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard
Laid down24 May 1943
Launched14 August 1943
Commissioned30 October 1943
DecommissionedReturned to US Navy on 24 November 1945
FateStruck from the Navy list and sold for scrap on 25 October 1947
General characteristics
Displacement1,800 long tons (1,829 t) fully loaded
Length306 ft (93 m) overall
Beam36.5 ft (11.1 m)
Draught11 ft (3.4 m) fully loaded
Speed24 knots (44 km/h)
Endurance5,500 nautical miles (10,200 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h)
ComplementTypically between 170 & 186

HMS Byron was a US-built Captain class frigate of the Royal Navy during World War II. Named after Vice Admiral The Honourable John Byron whose frequent encounters with bad weather in ensuing years won him the sobriquet, "Foul Weather Jack". Originally laid down as DE-79, a turbo-electric (TE) type Buckley-class destroyer escort, she was diverted to the Royal Navy and named HMS Byron before the launch.

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During World War II, HMS Byron earned battle honours for service in the English Channel, the Arctic, and the Atlantic in 1944 and in the North Sea in 1944 and 1945. In the course of these operations, she participated in the destruction of two German U-boats: U-722 on 27 March 1945 off the Hebrides, in position 57°09′N06°55′W / 57.150°N 6.917°W / 57.150; -6.917 , by depth charges in company with HMS Fitzroy and HMS Redmill; and, teaming with HMS Fitzroy, U-1001 on 8 April 1945 south-west of Land's End, in position 49°19′N10°23′W / 49.317°N 10.383°W / 49.317; -10.383 , by depth charges.

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