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Gillette (DE 270) / HMS Foley (K.474)

Specifications:
Class: Evarts (lend-lease)
Type: GMT (diesel-electric tandem motor drive, short hull, 3" guns)
Displacement: 1140 tons (light), 1430 tons (full)
Length: 283' 6" (wl), 289' 5" (oa)
Beam: 35' (extreme)
Draft: 11' (draft limit)
Propulsion: 4 GM Model 16-278A diesel engines with electric drive, 6000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 19 kts
Range: 4,150 nm @ 12 knots
Armament: 3-3"/50 Mk22 (1x3), 4-20mm Mk 4 AA (varied by ship), 4 Mk6 depth charge projectors, 2 Mk9 depth charge tracks
Complement: 156

HMS Foley (K.474) ex-Gillette (DE 270):

25 January 1942: Contract Awarded

23 February 1942: Named Gillette

07 April 1943: Keel Laid at the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Mass.

19 May 1943: Launched

14 June 1943: Allocated to the Royal Navy, renamed HMS Foley (K.474)

08 September 1943: Christened, sponsored by Mrs. Charles T. (Laura K.) Owens; transferred to Royal Navy and commissioned, Lcdr. Mansfield, RNVR, in command

22 August 1945: Returned to USN at Harwich, England and commissioned as USS Foley (DE 270), Lt. S. M. Strauss, USNR, in command

19 October 1945: Decommissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard

01 November 1945: Struck from the NVR

19 June 1946: Sold for scrapping

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By And/Or Copyright
(0627005)	59k	With the main body of the convoy in the background, the HMS *Foley* (K.474) is underway on escort duty in the Atlantic. The photo is undated and wartime censors have erased the ship's hull number for security purposes. (Royal Navy photo # A 24868 from the Admiralty Official Collection of the Imperial War Museum)	Mike Green Port Angeles, Wash.
(0627001)	109k	HMS *Foley* 1944	Gary Sharp
(0627004)	224k	HMS *Foley* crewmembers, taken at Portsmouth, 1943
(0627002)	126k	HMS *Foley* crewmembers, 1944 (Gary's Dad, Reg Sharp, is standing, third from right)
(0627003)	108k	rear of previous photo, signed by crewmembers

View the HMS Foley (K.474), ex-Gillette DE 270, DANFS history entry
located on the US Naval Historical Center web site.

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