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DE 521 / HMS Hoste (K.566)
Specifications:
Class: Evarts (lend-lease)
Type: GMT (diesel-electric tandem motor drive, short hull, 3" guns)
Displacement: 1140 tons (light), 1430 tons (full)
Length: 283' 6" (wl), 289' 5" (oa)
Beam: 35' (extreme)
Draft: 11' (draft limit)
Propulsion: 4 GM Model 16-278A diesel engines with electric drive, 6000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 19 kts
Range: 4,150 nm @ 12 knots
Armament: 3-3"/50 Mk22 (1x3), 4-20mm Mk 4 AA (varied by ship), 4 Mk6 depth charge projectors, 2 Mk9 depth charge tracks
Complement: 156
HMS Hoste (K.566) ex-DE 521:
Contract Awarded, 7 August 1942
Keel Laid, 14 August 1943 at Boston Naval Shipyard, Boston MA
Launched, 24 September 1943
Allocated to the Royal Navy, 19 October 1943, as Mitchell (K.566)
Renamed Hoste (K.566), 5 November 1943
Christened 3 December 1943, sponsored by Mrs. D.W. Mitchell
Transferred to RN and commissioned as HMS Hoste (K.566) 3 December 1943
Returned to USN at Harwich, England on 22 August 1945 and commissioned as USS Hoste (DE 521), Lt. G.C. Helm, Jr. in command
Decommissioned at Philadelphia NSY on 23 October 1945
Stricken 16 November 1945
Scrapped at Philadelphia NSY, completed on 7 May 1946
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painting of Hoste by her CO, Lcdr. Frank "Raffles" Greenaway |
Jeremy Greenaway |
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HMS Hoste (K.566) (ex-DE 521), DANFS history entry
located on the US Naval Historical Center web site.
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