- Construction and transfer
- Service history
- Disposal
- References
- External links
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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header=yes | Ship acquired=Returned by United Kingdom 31 January 1946 | Ship struck=12 March 1946 | Ship fate=Scrapping completed 15 June 1948
}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header=title | Ship country=United Kingdom | Ship flag= | Ship class=Captain-class frigate | Ship name=HMS Stockham (K572) | Thunderer|1783|6}} at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched= | Ship christened= | Ship acquired=28 December 1943 | Ship commissioned=28 December 1943 | 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 United States 31 January 1946 | Ship status= | Ship homeport=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Ship displacement=1,400 tons | Ship tons burthen= | 306|ft|abbr=on}} | 36.75|ft|1|abbr=on}} | 9|ft|abbr=on}} | Ship draft= | Ship propulsion=*Two Foster-Wheeler Express "D"-type water-tube boilers- GE {{convert|13500|shp|kW|-1|abbr=on}} steam turbines and generators (9,200 kW)
- Electric motors for {{convert|12000|shp|kW|-2|abbr=on}}
- Two shafts
| 24|kn|km/h}} | 5500|nmi|km}} at {{convert|15|kn|km/h}} | Ship endurance= | Ship test depth= | Ship boats= | Ship capacity= | Ship complement=186 | 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 K562
}} | HMS Stockham (K562) was a British Captain-class frigate of the Royal Navy in commission during World War II. Originally constructed as a United States Navy Buckley class destroyer escort, she served in the Royal Navy from 1943 to 1946. Construction and transferThe ship was laid down as the unnamed U.S. Navy destroyer escort DE-97 by Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Inc., in Hingham, Massachusetts, on 25 August 1943 and launched on 31 October 1943. She was transferred to the United Kingdom upon completion on 28 December 1943. Service historyCommissioned into service in the Royal Navy under the command of Temporary/Acting Lieutenant Commander Benjamin Charles Hamilton, RNR,[1] as the frigate HMS Stockham (K562) on 28 December 1943 simultaneously with her transfer, the ship served on patrol and escort duty in the English Channel for the remainder of World War II. She also participated in the invasion of Normandy in 1944. The Royal Navy returned Stockham to the U.S. Navy at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 31 January 1946. DisposalThe U.S. Navy received authorization on 21 February 1946 to dispose of Stockham and struck her from its Naval Vessel Register on 12 March 1946. She was sold to the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company of Newport News, Virginia, for scrapping, which was completed on 15 June 1948. References- {{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/s18/stockham.htm}} (see DE-97 section at bottom of page)
- Navsource Online: Destroyer Escort Photo Archive Stockham (DE-97) HMS Stockham (K-562)
- uboat.net HMS Stockham (K 562)
- Destroyer Escort Sailors Association DEs for UK
1. ^uboat.net HMS Stockham (K 562)
External links- Photo gallery of HMS Stockham (K562)
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