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DE 1 / HMS Bayntun (K.310)

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
Building and Operational Data:
  • Contract Awarded, 1 November 1941
  • Keel Laid, 5 April 1942 at Boston Naval Shipyard, Boston MA
  • Launched, 27 June 1942
  • Christened 20 January 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Diana V.K. Evans-Lombe
  • Transferred to RN and commissioned as HMS Bayntun (K.310) 20 January 1943, Lcdr. F. Gwynne-Jones, RNR, in command
  • Returned to USN at Harwich, England on 22 August 1945 and commissioned as USS Bayntun (DE 1), Lcdr. John E. Shinners, USNR, in command
  • Decommissioned at Philadelphia NSY on 19 October 1945
  • Stricken 1 November 1945
  • Sold to Thomas Harris Barker of New Jersey on 17 June 1947 for scrapping
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    Bayntun 74k 20 January 1943: Boston Naval Shipyard - Lcdr F. Gwynne-Jones, RNR, reads his orders during the commissioning of HMS Bayntun (K.310). (U.S. Navy photo, Boston National Historical Park Collection, NPS Cat. No. 10382) Stephen P. Carlson
    Preservation Specialist, Boston NHP
    Charlestown (Boston) Navy Yard
    Bayntun 62k 20 January 1943: Boston Naval Shipyard - Christening of HMS Bayntun (K.310) by Mrs. Diana V.K. Evans-Lombe at Pier 7, Boston Navy Yard. (U.S. Navy photo, Boston National Historical Park Collection, NPS Cat. No. 10382)
    Bayntun 75k 8 February 1943: Boston Harbor - HMS Bayntun in Boston Harbor with East Boston waterfront in the background. (U.S. Navy photo, Boston National Historical Park Collection, NPS Cat. No. 10381)
    Bayntun 50k underway, circa 1943 Robert Hurst
    Bayntun 70k Bayntun, the first US-built destroyer escort of them all. This was taken in May 1944, with a North Atlantic convoy. [Ministry of Defense photo, from the book "Allied Escort Ships of World War II
    (A Complete Survey)"    , by Peter Elliott].     		submitted twice:
    John Shaw and Edib Krlicbegovic, of
    Bosnia-Hercegovina
    Bayntun 210k undated wartime image Arthur Lewis


    Photos from Arthur's father,
    Arthur T. Lewis,
    a wireless operator in Bayntun
    Bayntun 106k On patrol, taken from HMS Loch Eck (K.422).
    Bayntun 325k Crew photo taken at the ship's decommissioning
    Bayntun 93k Invitation to Bayntun's Decommissioning Ball
    View the HMS Bayntun (K.310), ex-DE 1, DANFS history entry
    located on the US Naval Historical Center web site.
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