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Shiel (PG 110)
ex-HMS Shiel (K 305)
ex-PG-110

British River Class Frigate:

  • Laid down in 1943 as PG-110 for the U.S. Navy at Canadian Vickers, Ltd., Montreal, Canada
  • Launched 29 September 1943
  • Transferred to the Royal Navy before completion under the lend-lease program and named HMS Shiel (K 305)
  • Returned to U.S. Navy custody 2 March 1946 at Boston, Massachusetts and reclassified PG-110
  • Struck from the Navy Register 8 May 1946 and transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal
  • Sold in December 1946
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 1370 t.
  • Length 301.25'
  • Beam 36.5'
  • Draft 13'
  • Speed 20 kts.
  • Complement 107
  • Armament: Two 4"/40 mounts, ten 20mm guns, two depth charge tracks and one hedgehog depth charge projector
  • Propulsion: Two Admiralty 3-drum express boilers, one 5,500ihp reciprocating vertical triple expansion engine, one shaft.
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    PG-110 276k Hand colored photo from the collection of Eric E. Ashcroft who served with the Royal Navy in Shiel Ken Ashcroft
    PG-110 55k HMS Shiel (K 305) underway on 26 June 1944
    Photo from the Imperial War Museum Admiralty Official Collection Ministry of Defense Foxhill Collections of Ship's Photographs, Photo No. © IWM (FL 10562)    		 Mike Green
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