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HMS Retalick - Wikipedia

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History
The future HMS Retalick (K555) at Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard in Hingham, Massachusetts, on the day she was launched, 9 October 1943.
United States
Name	unnamed (DE-90)
Ordered	10 January 1942^[1]
Builder	Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Hingham, Massachusetts
Laid down	21 July 1943^[2]
Launched	9 October 1943^[2]
Completed	8 December 1943^[2]
Commissioned	never
Fate	Transferred to United Kingdom 8 December 1943^[2]
Acquired	Returned by United Kingdom 25 October 1945^[2]
Stricken	19 December 1945^[2]
Fate	Sold for scrapping 7 May 1946^[2]
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Retalick (K555)
Namesake	Captain Richard Retalick ( ? - 1803), British naval officer who was commanding officer of HMS Defiance during the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801^[3]^[4]
Acquired	8 December 1943^[1]
Commissioned	8 December 1943^[1]
Fate	Returned to United States 25 October 1945^[2]
General characteristics
Displacement	1,400 long tons (1,422 t)
Length	306 ft (93 m)
Beam	36.75 ft (11.2 m)
Draught	9 ft (2.7 m)
Propulsion	Two Foster-Wheeler Express "D"-type water-tube boilers GE 13,500 shp (10,070 kW) steam turbines and generators (9,200 kW) Electric motors for 12,000 shp (8,900 kW) Two shafts
Speed	24 knots (44 km/h)
Range	5,500 nautical miles (10,200 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h)
Complement	186
Sensors and processing systems	SA & SL type radars Type 144 series Asdic MF Direction Finding antenna HF Direction Finding Type FH 4 antenna
Armament	3 × 3 in (76 mm) /50 Mk.22 guns 1 × twin Bofors 40 mm mount Mk.I 7–16 × 20 mm Oerlikon guns Mark 10 Hedgehog antisubmarine mortar Depth charges QF 2-pounder naval gun
Notes	Pennant number K555

HMS Retalick (K555) was a British Captain-class frigate of the Royal Navy in commission during World War II. Originally constructed as a United States Navy Buckley class destroyer escort, she served in the Royal Navy from 1943 to 1945.

Construction and transfer

The ship was laid down as the unnamed U.S. Navy destroyer escort DE-90 by Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Inc., in Hingham, Massachusetts, on 21 July 1943 and launched on 9 October 1943.^[2] She was transferred to the United Kingdom under Lend-Lease upon completion on 8 December 1943.^[2]

Service history

Commissioned into service in the Royal Navy as the frigate HMS Retalick (K555) on 8 December 1943 simultaneously with her transfer, the ship served on patrol and escort duty for the remainder of World War II.^[1]^[2]

The Royal Navy returned Retalick to the U.S. Navy on 25 October 1945.^[2]

Disposal

The U.S. Navy struck Retalick from its Naval Vessel Register on 19 December 1945. She was sold on 7 May 1946 for scrapping.^[2]

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Photo gallery of HMS Retalick (K555)

v t e Captain-class frigates
Ex-Evarts class (diesel-electric (GMT) type)	Bayntun Bazely Berry Blackwood Burges Capel Cockburn / Drury Cooke Dacres Domett Foley Gardiner Garlies Gould Goodall Goodson Gore Grindall Inglis Inman Keats Kempthorne Kingsmill Lawford Louis Lawson Lindsay / Pasley Loring Mitchell / Hoste Moorsom Manners Mounsey
Ex-Buckley class (turbo-electric (TE) type)	Affleck Aylmer Balfour Bentinck Bentley Bickerton Bligh Braithwaite Bullen Byard Byron Calder Conn Cosby Cotton Cranstoun Cubitt Curzon Dakins Deane Duckworth Duff Ekins Essington Fitzroy Russell / Halsted Hargood Holmes Hotham Narborough Redmill Retalick Riou Rutherford Rowley Rupert Stockham Seymour Spragge Stayner Thornborough Torrington Trollope Tyler Waldegrave Whitaker
Preceded by: Colony class Followed by: Loch class
List of frigates of the Royal Navy

Buckley-class destroyer escorts

United States Navy

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Part of Captain class

Affleck (ex-Oswald)
Aylmer (ex-Harmon (DE-72))
Balfour (ex-McAnn)
Bentinck (ex-Bull (DE-52))
Bentley (ex-Ebert)
Bickerton (ex-Eisele)
Bligh (ex-Liddle (DE-76))
Braithwaite (ex-Straub)
Bullen (ex-DE-78)
Byard (ex-Donaldson)
Byron (ex-DE-79)
Calder (ex-Formoe)
Conn (ex-DE-80)
Cosby (ex-Reeves (DE-94))
Cotton (ex-DE-81)
Cranstoun (ex-DE-82)
Cubitt (ex-DE-83)
Curzon (ex-DE-84)
Dakins (ex-DE-85)
Deane (ex-DE-86)
Duff (ex-Lamons)
Duckworth (ex-Gary)
Ekins (ex-DE-87)
Essington (ex-DE-67)
Fitzroy (ex-DE-88)
Hargood (ex-DE-573)
Holmes (ex-DE-572)
Hotham (ex-DE-574)
Narborough (ex-DE-569)
Redmill (ex-DE-89)
Retalick (ex-DE-90)
Riou (ex-DE-92)
Rowley (ex-DE-95)
Rupert (ex-DE-96)
Russell / Halsted (ex-Reynolds)
Rutherford (ex-DE-93)
Seymour (ex-DE-98)
Spragge (ex-DE-563)
Stayner (ex-DE-564)
Stockham (ex-DE-97)
Thornborough (ex-DE-565)
Torrington (ex-DE-568)
Trollope (ex-DE-566)
Tyler (ex-DE-567)
Waldegrave (ex-DE-570)
Whitaker (ex-DE-571)

Post-World War II operators
Chilean Navy	Serrano (ex-Odum) Orella (ex-Jack C. Robinson) Riquelme (ex-Joseph E. Campbell) Virgilio Uribe (ex-Daniel T. Griffin)
Republic of China Navy	Wen Shan (ex-Gantner) Lu Shan (ex-Bull (DE-693)) Chung Shan (ex-Blessman) Kang Shan (ex-George W. Ingram) Lung Shan (ex-Schmitt)
Colombian National Navy	Almirante Tono (ex-Bassett) Almirante Brión (ex-Burke)
Ecuadorian Navy	25 de Julio / Morán Valverde (ex-Enright)
Republic of Korea Navy	Jon Nam (ex-Hayter) Kyong Puk (ex-Kephart)
Mexican Navy	Coahuila / Vincente Guerrero (ex-Barber)
Philippine Navy	Rajah Soliman (ex-Bowers)

Preceded by: Evarts class
Followed by: Cannon class

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