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Harmon (DE 72)
HMS Aylmer (K-463)

Specifications:
Class: Buckley (lend-lease), Royal Navy - Captain Class
Type: TE (turbine-electric drive, 3" guns)
Displacement: 1400 tons (light), 1740 tons (full)
Length: 300' (wl), 306' (oa)
Beam: 36' 9" (extreme)
Draft: 13' 6" (max draft)
Propulsion: 2 "D" Express boilers, G.E. turbines with electric drive, 12000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 24 kts
Range: 4.940 nm @ 12 knots
Armament: 3 x 3"/50 Mk22 (1x3), 1-1.1"/75 Mk2 quad AA (4x1), 8-20mm Mk 4 AA (varied by ship), 1 Hedgehog Projector Mk10, 4 Mk6 depth charge projectors, 2 Mk9 depth charge tracks
Complement: 186
Harmon (DE72) Building and Operational Data:
  • 12 April 1943: Keel laid by the Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Inc., Hingham, Mass.
  • 10 June 1943: Assigned to the United Kingdom, renamed HMS Aylmer (K-463)
  • 10 July 1943: Launched and christened, sponsored by Mrs. E. M. Mackay
  • 30 September 1943: Transferred under lend-lease to the Royal Navy
  • 5 November 1945: Returned to the custody of the U.S. Navy at the New York Navy Yard
  • 19 December 1945: Stricken from the NVR
  • 20 June 1947: Sold for scrapping to Mr. John J. Witto, Staten Island, N.Y.
  • February 1948: scrapped
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    Aylmer 75k February 1945: on the River Mersey - heading for Liverpool Jim Bryce
    Aylmer 75k undated: in drydock at Holyhead after ramming U-1051 on 26 January 1945 Robert Hurst
    HMS Aylmer 46k HMS Aylmer (ex-USS Harmon DE-72) tied up to mooring buoy, date and location unknown. (Photo from Atlantic Escorts: Ships, Weapons & Tactics in World War Two, by David K. Brown)
    HMS Aylmer 62k HMS Aylmer underway date and location unknown. (Photo from Atlantic Escorts: Ships, Weapons & Tactics in World War Two, by David K. Brown)
    Aylmer 192k undated: The crew of HMS Aylmer, taken by R. Clements Little, Photographer, of 12 High Street, Belfast, Northern Ireland. The 5th Escort Group were based at HMS Caroline (the name of the Belfast Royal Navy establishment). This photograph was owned by my father, Edward James O'Grady, Stoker First Class, and was on display in our home on the Scilly Isles from 1946 until he passed away in 1992. He was not in the photo having been obscured by an insert because he had his cap on the back of his head and the Captain ordered him to be covered up. I have Photoshopped him back into the picture with his cap on correctly (far right under the two insert photos.). Vincent O'Grady
    Melbourne, Australia
    Aylmer 83k undated wartime image of Aylmer (Photo by Wright & Logan] Tim Rizzuto
    Executive Director
    USS Slater (DE 765) Memorial
    History of HMS Aylmer (K-463), ex-Harmon (DE72)
    (No U.S. Navy service, History Not Available)
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    Not Applicable To This Ship
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