DL - HMS Spey (K246)

HMS Spey

Type: Frigate
Class: River
Codename: To.246
The keel is based:
Run on water: 18.10.1941
Put into service: 19.5.1942
Decommissioned: 1948 sold to Egypt as Rashid
Shipyard: Smiths Dock Co., Ltd. (South Bank-on-Tees, In.To.)

Length: 91,84 m
Width: 11,18 m
Dive: of 3.96 m
Displacement /max.: 1370t / 1830t
Crew: 140

Drive
2 x Admiralty 3 boiler
Performance: 5500HP
Speed: 20,0 knots
Fuel supply: -
Range: 7200nm in 11u
5400nm at 15u
Armament
2 x 102mm (2x1/40)
10 x 20mm cannon AA (2x2,6x1)
1 x thrower depth charges (hedgehog)
8 x thrower depth charges
2 x slide (depth charge tracks).
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The day 11.07.1942 sa along with the torpédoborcom Léopard and šalupou HMS Pelican podieľala on sinking submarine At 136 hlbinnými bombs on pozícii 33,30 severnej zemepisnej width and of 22.52 západnej zemepisnej dĺžky (Atlantic ocean, west of the island of Madeira). Killed všetkých 45 členov the crew of the submarine.

Source: www.uboat.net.
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