- Construction and transfer
- Service history
- Disposal
- References
- External links
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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header=title | Ship country=United Kingdom | Ship flag= | Ship class=Captain-class frigate | Ship name=HMS Hargood (K582) | Belleisle|1795|6}} at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805[1] | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched= | Ship christened= | Ship acquired=7 February 1944 | Ship commissioned=7 February 1944[2] | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified= | Ship refit= | Ship captured= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship fate=Returned to U.S. Navy 23 February 1946 | Ship status= | Ship homeport=
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- Two shafts
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- MF Direction Finding antenna
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- 7–16 × 20 mm Oerlikon guns
- Mark 10 Hedgehog A/S projector
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- QF 2-pounder naval gun
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}} | HMS Hargood (K582) was a Captain-class frigate which served in the Royal Navy during World War II. Laid down as a Buckley class destroyer escort originally intended for the United States Navy, she was transferred to Great Britain under the terms of Lend-Lease before she was finished in 1944, serving in the Royal Navy from 1944 to 1946. She was returned to the U.S. Navy in 1946 and sold for scrapping in 1947. Construction and transferThe still-unnamed ship was laid down as the U.S. Navy destroyer escort DE-573 by Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Inc., in Hingham, Massachusetts, on 27 October 1943. Allocated to the United Kingdom, she received the British name Hargood and was launched on 18 December 1943. She was transferred to the United Kingdom upon completion on 7 February 1944. Service historyCommissioned into service in the Royal Navy as HMS Hargood (K582) on 7 February 1944 simultaneously with her transfer, the ship served on patrol and escort duty in the North Atlantic Ocean and off the Normandy beachhead during the invasion of Normandy. The Royal Navy returned her to the U.S. Navy on 23 February 1946. DisposalThe U.S. Navy struck Hargood from its Naval Vessel Register on 12 April 1946. She was sold to the Northern Metal Company of the Tacony section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for scrapping, and was removed for scrapping on 7 March 1947. References- {{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/h2/hargood.htm}}
- Navsource Online: Destroyer Escort Photo Archive DE-573 HMS Hargood (K-582)
- uboat.net HMS Hargood (K582)
- Destroyer Escort Sailors Association DEs for UK
1. ^Captain Class Frigate Association: HMS Hargood K582 (DE 573)
2. ^uboat.net HMS Hargood (K582)
External links- Photo gallery of HMS Hargood (K582)
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