Class and type Captain class frigate Laid down 30 June 1943 Construction started 30 June 1943 Length 93 m | Name HMS Deane Commissioned 26 November 1943 Launched 29 September 1943 Draft 2.7 m | |
Out of service Returned to US Navy on 4 March 1946 Fate Sold for scrapping on 7 November 1946. Builders Bethlehem Steel, Massachusetts | ||
HMS Deane was a Captain class frigate of the Buckley class of destroyer escort, originally commissioned to be built for the U.S. Navy. Before she was finished in 1943, she was transferred to the Royal Navy under the terms of Lend-Lease, and saw service during World War II.
She was built by Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard Inc. in Massachusetts, and was assigned with the pennant number DE-86 but was not named. She was launched on 29 September 1943 and was commissioned into the Royal Navy on 26 November of that year. She served for three years with the British, mainly in Home waters, and escorting Arctic convoys. She was also one of the ships tasked with escorting and overseeing the surrender of German U boats at the end of the war. She was returned to the US Navy on 4 March 1946, and then sold for scrapping on 7 November 1946.