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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

HMS Aylmer (K.463) Building and Operational Data:

12 April 1943: Keel laid by the Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Inc., Hingham, Mass.

18 May 1943: Assigned the name Harmon

10 June 1943: Assigned to the United Kingdom under lend-lease

23 June 1943: The name Harmon was reassigned to DE 678

10 July 1943: Launched and christened, sponsored by Mrs. E. M. Mackay

30 September 1943: Transferred to the Royal Navy, renamed HMS Aylmer (K.463)

05 November 1945: Returned to the custody of the U.S. Navy at the New York Navy Yard

19 December 1945: Struck from the NVR

20 June 1947: Sold for scrapping to Mr. John J. Witto, Staten Island, N.Y.

February 1948: Removed from U.S. Navy custody, scrapped

Size	Image Description	Contributed By And/Or Copyright
75k	undated: Holyhead, Wales - *Alymer* in drydock at after ramming *U-1051* on 26 January 1945.	Bob Hurst Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
75k	February 1945: *Alymer* on the River Mersey, heading for Liverpool.	Jim Bryce
68k	The Captain-class frigate HMS *Aylmer* (K-463) tied-up at Clarence Graving Dock, Liverpool. The ship's company on the fo'c'sle show their satisfaction after she and other ships of the 4th Escort Group had depth charged, shelled, rammed and sunk a U-Boat. Note the damaged stem caused by the ship ramming the U-Boat. (Royal Navy photo # A27205 taken by Lt. C.H. Parnell, Royal Navy photographer; from the collections of the Imperial War Museum)	Bob Hurst Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
97k	14 February 1945: Liverpool, England - HMS *Alymer* (K 463) in Clarence Graving Dock, showing the inside of the ship's stem being repaired. *Alymer* was being repaired from ramming U-1051 on 26 January and in dry dock from 05 February to 05 April 1945. (Royal Navy photo # A 28157 taken by Lt. C. H. Parnell, Royal Navy photographer; from the collections of the Imperial War Museum)	Mike Green Port Angeles, Wash.
91k	12 March 1945: Liverpool, England - HMS *Alymer* (K 463) in Clarence Graving Dock at Liverpool with a section of hull plating being lifted into position. (Royal Navy photo # A 28160 taken by Lt. C. H. Parnell, Royal Navy photographer; from the collections of the Imperial War Museum)
70k	05 April 1945: Liverpool, England - HMS *Alymer* (K 463) in Clarence Graving Dock at Liverpool, ready for sea trials. Yard workers are winding in the port anchor cable just before the dock is flooded. (Royal Navy photo # A 28164 taken by Lt. C. H. Parnell, Royal Navy photographer; from the collections of the Imperial War Museum)
46k	HMS *Aylmer* tied up to mooring buoy, date and location unknown. (Photo from Atlantic Escorts: Ships, Weapons & Tactics in World War Two, by David K. Brown)	Bob Hurst Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
62k	HMS *Aylmer* underway date and location unknown. (Photo from Atlantic Escorts: Ships, Weapons & Tactics in World War Two, by David K. Brown)	Bob Hurst Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
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
83k	undated wartime image of *Aylmer* (Photo by Wright & Logan]	Tim Rizzuto Ship's Superintendent DE Historical Museum USS Slater at Albany, N.Y.