HMS Whitaker (K580)

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HMS Whitaker (K580)

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History

United States
Name	unnamed (DE-571)
Builder	Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Hingham, Massachusetts
Laid down	20 October 1943
Launched	12 December 1943
Completed	28 January 1944
Commissioned	never
Fate	Transferred to United Kingdom 28 January 1944
Stricken	19 May 1945
Acquired	Returned by United Kingdom 3 December 1945
Fate	Sold 9 January 1947 for scrapping
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Whitaker (K580)
Namesake	Vice Admiral Sir Edward Whitaker (1660–1735), British naval officer who distinguished himself as commanding officer of HMS Dorsetshire in 1704
Acquired	28 January 1944
Commissioned	28 January 1944
Decommissioned	March 1945^[1]
Fate	Constructive total loss 1 November 1944 Returned to United States 3 December 1945
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 K580

The second HMS Whitaker (K580), and the first to enter service, 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 1944 to 1945.

Construction and transfer

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The ship was laid down as the unnamed U.S. Navy destroyer escort DE-571 by Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Inc., in Hingham, Massachusetts, on 20 October 1943 and launched on 12 December 1943. She was transferred to the United Kingdom upon completion on 28 January 1944.

Service history

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The ship was commissioned into service in the Royal Navy ^[1] as the frigate HMS Whitaker (K580) on 28 January 1944 simultaneously with her transfer. She served on patrol and escort duty and operated in support of the invasion of Normandy in the summer of 1944.

The German submarine U-483 torpedoed Whitaker at 0210 hours on 1 November 1944, off Malin Head on the north coast of Ireland at position 55°30′00″N 007°39′00″W / 55.50000°N 7.65000°W / 55.50000; -7.65000 (HMS Whitaker (K580) torpedoed). Damage control measures brought the resultant fires under control by 0320 hours but not before the ship had lost much of her bow and suffered 79 dead.^[2] Towed first to Londonderry Port, Northern Ireland, and then to Belfast, Northern Ireland, Whitaker was declared a constructive total loss, remained inactive for the rest of World War II, and was decommissioned in March 1945.^[1] The U.S. Navy struck her from its Naval Vessel Register on 19 May 1945.

The Royal Navy returned Whitaker to the U.S. Navy on 3 December 1945.

Disposal

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After her return to the U.S. Navy, Whitaker remained in the United Kingdom for ultimate disposition. She was sold to John Lee of Belfast on 9 January 1947 for scrapping.

Citations

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References

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This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
Navsource Online: Destroyer Escort Photo Archive Whitaker (DE-571) HMS Whitaker (K-580)
uboat.net HMS Whitaker (K 580)
Destroyer Escort Sailors Association DEs for UK
Captain Class Frigate Association HMS Whitaker K580 (DE 571)

External links

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Photo gallery of HMS Whitaker (K580)

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

Royal Navy
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

v t e Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in November 1944
Shipwrecks	1 Nov: USS Abner Read, TA20, HMS Whitaker 2 Nov: Fort Lee 3 Nov: Akikaze 5 Nov: Kiebitz, Nachi, PB-107, TA21 7 Nov: USS Albacore, HM LST-420 8 Nov: USS Growler 9 Nov: U-537 10 Nov: Gokoku Maru, USS Mount Hood 11 Nov: Hamanami, Naganami, USS Scamp, Shimakaze, U-771, U-1200, Wakatsuki 12 Nov: HMAS Marlean, Tirpitz 13 Nov: Akebono, Akishimo, Hatsuharu, Hatsu Maru, I-12, I-38, Kiso, Okinami 17 Nov: USS LST-6, Mayasan Maru, NKI 01, Shin'yō (ex-Scharnhorst) 18 Nov: I-41, Seisho Maru 20 Nov: USS Mississinewa, HMAS ML 827 21 Nov: Kongō, Urakaze 22 Nov: Hokkai Maru, HMS Stratagem 24 Nov: Hansa 25 Nov: Kumano, HMCS Shawinigan, Shimotsuki, Sumida, U-482, Yasoshima 27 Nov: Rigel 28 Nov: U-80, PB-105, Yu 2 29 Nov: Fushimi, I-365, Shinano Unknown date: Mogador, U-479, U-1020
Other incidents	10 Nov: USS Abarenda, USS Alhena, USS Argonne, USS Aries, USS Cacapon, USS Cebu, HMS Hydra, USS Kyne, USS Lyman, USS Mindanao, USS Oberrender, USS Petrof Bay, USS Piedmont, USS Potawatomi, USS Preserver, USS Saginaw Bay, USS Talbot, USS Walter C. Wann, USS YMS-238, USS Young 13 Nov: U-1052 17 Nov: HMAS ML 827, Seisho Maru 23 Nov: Gus W. Darnell 27 Nov: USS Gar 28 Nov: USS Spearfish 30 Nov: HMS Duff
1943 1944 1945 October 1944 December 1944

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