HMS Duckworth (K351)
HMS Duckworth at Belfast, April 1945
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Gary |
| Namesake: | Thomas J. Gary |
| Ordered: | 10 January 1942 |
| Laid down: | 16 January 1943 |
| Launched: | 1 May 1943 |
| Struck: | 21 January 1946 |
| Identification: | DE-61 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Royal Navy under Lend-Lease 4 August 1943 |
 United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Duckworth |
| Namesake: | Sir John Duckworth |
| Commissioned: | 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | 1946 |
| Identification: | K351 |
| Fate: | Returned to US and scrapped 1946 |
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| Class and type: | Captain-class frigate |
| Displacement: | 1,300 tons |
| Length: | 306 ft (93 m) |
| Beam: | 36 ft 9 in (11.20 m) |
| Draught: | 10 ft 9 in (3.28 m) |
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| Speed: | 24 knots (44 km/h) |
| Range: | 6,000 nmi (11,000 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h) |
| Complement: | 186 |
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HMS Duckworth (K351) was a Captain-class frigate of the Royal Navy. She served during the Second World War as a convoy escort and anti-submarine warfare vessel in the Battle of the Atlantic and was an effective U-boat killer, being credited with the destruction of five U-boats during the conflict.
Duckworth was ordered on 10 January 1942 as DE-61, long-hulled turbo-diesel (TE) type destroyer escort, one of more than 500 such vessels built for ASW to a collaborative British-American design. Laid down on 16 January 1943 by the Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard, in Massachusetts, she was launched on 1 May 1943 as USS Gary in honour of Thomas J. Gary, a Texan who died in the attack on Pearl Harbor. She was transferred to the Royal Navy under Lend-Lease on completion on 4 August 1943, and named for John Thomas Duckworth, a RN officer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. She replaced a previous Duckworth, numbered BDE-19, which was commissioned into the US Navy as Burden R. Hastings. Duckworth's pennant number was K351.
After commissioning Duckworth was assigned to Western Approaches Command, as the senior officer's ship of 3rd Escort Group.
On her first transatlantic convoy Duckworth was involved in the battle around convoy SC 143, which saw one warship and one merchant ship sunk, for the destruction of three U-boats. On 9 October Duckworth was able to assist in saving survivors from Yorkmar, the merchant ship lost.
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