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DE-516
HMS Lawford (K-514)

CLASS: Evarts (lend-lease)
TYPE: GMT (diesel-electric tandem motor drive, short hull, 3" guns)
Displacement: 1,140 (std), 1,430 tons (full) Dimensions: 289' 5" (oa), 283' 6" (wl) x 35' 0" x 11' 0" (max)
Armament: 3-3"/50 Mk22 (1x3), 4-20mm Mk 4 AA (varied by ship),
4 Mk6 depth charge projectors, 2 Mk9 depth charge tracks
Machinery: 4 GM Model 16-278A diesel engines with electric drive, 6000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 19 knots Range: 4,150 nm @ 12 knots Crew: 156
Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Boston Navy Yard on 9 July 1943
Launched 13 August 1943, Commissioned (USN) Never
To Britain as lend lease 3 November 1943
Fate: Sunk by German aircraft off Juno Beach, Normandy, France, 8 June 1944
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HMS Lawford 267k 1944 (photo credit IWM-A21817) Nick Tiberio
HMS Lawford 143k HMS Lawford (ex-DE-516) and HMS Trollope (ex-DE-566), and HM LST-302, in Portsmouth Dockyard on 26 May 1944. Lawford was sunk less than a fortnight later, on 8 June, and Trollope was torpedoed by an E-boat off Le Havre only a month after that. Both ships suffered heavy casualties. (Photo from the Imperial War Museum #N25517 as printed in "The Captain Class Frigates in the Second World War" by Donald Collingwood) Robert Hurst
History of HMS Lawford (K-514), ex-DE-516
(No U.S. Navy service, History Not Available)
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
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