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DE 2 / HMS Bazely (K.311)

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 Bazely (DE-2):
  • Contract Awarded, 1 November 1941
  • Keel Laid, 5 April 1942 at Boston Naval Shipyard, Boston MA
  • Launched, 27 June 1942
  • Christened 18 February 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Eustace A. (Margaret Phoebe) Brock
  • Transferred to RN and commissioned as HMS Bazely (K.311) 18 February 1943, Lcdr. Jeffry V. Brock, RCNVR, in command
  • Returned to USN at Chatham, England on 20 August 1945 and commissioned as USS Bazely (DE 2), Lt. Lester H. Watson, USNR, in command
  • Decommissioned at the Philadelphia NSY on 22 October 1945
  • Stricken 16 November 1945
  • Scrapped at the Philadelphia NSY, scrapping completed by 28 May 1946
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    Bazely 41k 18 March 1943: Boston Harbor - HMS Bazely (K.311) underway. (Boston Navy Yard Photo #1093-43, Boston National Historical Park Collection, NPS Cat. No. 10383) Stephen P. Carlson
    Preservation Specialist, Boston NHP
    Charlestown (Boston) Navy Yard
    HMS Bazely 46k undated wartime image Robert Hurst
    View the HMS Bazely (K.311), ex-DE 2, DANFS history entry
    located on the US Naval Historical Center web site.
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