- Construction and transfer
- Service history
- Disposal
- References
- External links
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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United States | 1945}} | Ship class= | Ship name=USS O'Toole (DE-274) | Ship namesake=U.S. Navy Ensign John Albert O’Toole (1916-1942), killed in action during the Operation Torch amphibious landings in North Africa on 8 November 1942 | Ship ordered=25 January 1942[1] | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts | Ship laid down=20 May 1943 | Ship launched=8 July 1943[2] | Ship sponsor= | Ship completed=28 September 1943 | Ship commissioned=never | Ship decommissioned= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified= | Ship refit= | Ship captured= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship fate=Transferred to United Kingdom 28 September 1943 | Ship status= | Ship homeport=
}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header=yes | Ship acquired=Returned by United Kingdom 12 February 1946 | Ship fate=*Sold 10 December 1946 for scrapping
}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header=title | Ship country=United Kingdom | Ship flag= | Ship class=Captain class frigate | Ship name=HMS Gardiner | Monmouth|1667|6}} during the capture of the French ship Foudroyant in 1758 [3][4] | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched= | Ship christened= | Ship acquired=28 September 1943 | Ship commissioned=28 September 1943[1] | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned=1945[5] | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified= | Ship refit= | Ship captured= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship fate=Returned to United States 12 February 1946 | Ship status= | Ship homeport=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Ship displacement=1,140 tons | Ship tons burthen= | 289.5|ft|m|abbr=on}} | 35|ft|m|abbr=on}} | 9|ft|m|abbr=on}} | Ship draft= | Ship propulsion=*Four General Motors 278A 16-cylinder engines- GE {{convert|7040|bhp|kW|0|abbr=on}} generators (4,800 kW)
- GE electric motors for {{convert|6000|shp|kW|-2|abbr=on}}
- Two shafts
| 20|kn|km/h|0}} | 5000|nmi|km|-1}} at {{convert|15|kn|km/h|0}} | Ship endurance= | Ship test depth= | Ship boats= | Ship capacity= | Ship complement=156 | Ship time to activate= | Ship sensors=*SA & SL type radars- Type 144 series Asdic
- MF Direction Finding antenna
- HF Direction Finding Type FH 4 antenna
| Ship EW= | 3|in|mm|abbr=on}} /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
| Ship armour= | Ship armor= | Ship aircraft= | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship honours= | Ship notes=Pennant number K478
}} | HMS Gardiner (K478) 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 USS O'Toole (DE-274), she served in the Royal Navy from 1943 to 1946. Construction and transferThe ship was laid down as the U.S. Navy destroyer escort USS O'Toole (DE-274), the first ship of the name, by the Boston Navy Yard in Boston, Massachusetts, on 20 May 1943 and launched on 8 July 1943. O'Toole was transferred to the United Kingdom under Lend-Lease upon completion on 28 September 1943. Service historyCommissioned into service in the Royal Navy as HMS Gardiner (K478) under the command of Lieutenant Commander Robert Sydney Hopper, DSC, RN, on 28 September 1943[1] simultaneously with her transfer, the ship served on patrol and escort duty for the remainder of World War II. The Royal Navy decommissioned Gardiner in 1945[5] after the end of the war and returned her to the U.S. Navy at the Boston Naval Shipyard on 12 February 1946. DisposalThe United States sold Gardiner to the Atlas Steel and Supply Company on 10 December 1946 for scrapping. In 1947, she was resold to the Kulky Steel and Equipment Company of Alliance, Ohio, and finally was scrapped in June 1947. References- {{DANFS|https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/g/gardiner.html}} (Gardiner)
- {{DANFS|https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/o/o-toole.html}} (O'Toole)
- Navsource Online: Destroyer Escort Photo Archive O{{'}}Toole (DE-274) HMS Gardiner (K-478)
- uboat.net HMS Gardiner (K 478)
1. ^1 2 uboat.net HMS Gardiner (K 478)
2. ^Navsource Online: Destroyer Escort Photo Archive O'Toole (DE 274) HMS Gardiner (K-478)
3. ^FRIGATES IN MIXED ESCORT GROUPS
4. ^Sotheby's Catalogue Notes and Provenance
5. ^1 According to uboat.net HMS Gardiner (K 478), the Royal Navy had removed Gardiner from its active list by October 1945, indicating her decommissioning prior to that.
External links- Photo gallery of HMS Gardiner (K478)
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