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DE 97 / HMS Stockham (K.562)

Specifications:
Class: Buckley (lend-lease)
Type: TE (turbine-electric, long hull, 3" guns)
Displacement: 1,400 tons (light), 1740 tons (full)
Length: 300' (wl), 306' (oa)
Beam: 36' 9" (extreme)
Draft: 13' 6" (draft limit)
Propulsion: 2 "D" Express boilers, G.E. turbines with electric drive, 12000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 24 kts
Range: 4,940 nm @ 12 knots
Armament: 3-3"/50 Mk22 (1x3), 1-1.1"/75 Mk2 quad AA (4x1), 8-20mm Mk4 AA (varied by ship), 1 Hedgehog Projector Mk10 , 4-Mk6 depth charge projectors, 2-Mk9 depth charge tracks
Complement: 186

Building and Operational Data:

Keel Laid, 25 August 1943 at Bethlehem Steel Hingham, Hingham MA

Launched, 31 October 1943

Transferred to RN and commissioned as HMS Stockham (K.562) 28 December 1943

Returned to USN at Philadelphis Naval Shipyard on 31 January 1946

Stricken 12 March 1946

Sold to the Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., she was scrapped there completing on 15 June 1948

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Contributed By And/Or Copyright
HMS Stockham	67k	21 March 1944: Greenock, Scotland - HMS *Stockham* is shown at anchor . (Royal Navy photo #A 22515, by Lt. S. J. Beadell, Royal Navy photographer; from the collections of the Imperial War Museum)		Robert Hurst

View the HMS Stockham (K.562), ex-DE 97, DANFS history entry
located on the US Naval Historical Center web site.

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