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Formoe (DE 58) / HMS Calder (K.349)

Specifications:
Class: Buckley (lend-lease)
Type: TE (turbine-electric, long hull, 3" guns)
Displacement: 1,400 tons (light), 1740 tons (full)
Length: 300' (wl), 306' (oa)
Beam: 36' 9" (extreme)
Draft: 13' 6" (draft limit)
Propulsion: 2 "D" Express boilers, G.E. turbines with electric drive, 12000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 24 kts
Range: 4,940 nm @ 12 knots
Armament: 3-3"/50 Mk22 (1x3), 1-1.1"/75 Mk2 quad AA (4x1), 8-20mm Mk4 AA (varied by ship), 1 Hedgehog Projector Mk10 , 4-Mk6 depth charge projectors, 2-Mk9 depth charge tracks
Complement: 186

Building and Operational Data:

01 November 1941: Contract Awarded

11 December 1942: Keel laid by the Bethlehem-Hingham Steel Shipyard, Hingham, Mass.

27 March 1943: Launched

15 July 1943: Transferred to the Royal Navy and commissioned as HMS Calder (K.349)

19 October 1945: Returned to USN at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, NYC, NY

05 December 1945: Struck from the NVR

15 January 1948: Sold for scrapping

Size	Image Description	Contributed By And/Or Copyright
181k	20 January 1943: Hingham, Mass. - DE 58 / HMS *Calder* (K.349) on the left and *Foss* (DE 59) on the right. (U.S. Navy photo #BS85616 from the National Archives, ).	Bob Hurst Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
100k	15 July 1943: Hingham, Mass. - USS *Amesbury* (DE 66) and USS *Lee Fox* (DE 65) in the background during the handing over and commissioning ceremony for HMS *Calder. (Photo from the private collection of Electrical Artificer Ron Ayers as printed in* "The Captain Class Frigates in the Second World War" by Donald Collingwood)	Bob Hurst Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
71k	undated wartime image	Jim Bryce
43k	*Calder* in November 1943. Note she has her torpedo davit on the upper deck, though no tubes were fitted. A good beam shot of a 'Buckley" class destroyer escort. [Ministry of Defence photo, from the book "Allied Escort Ships of World War II (A Complete Survey)" by Peter Elliott]	Edib Krlicbegovic Bosnia - Hercegovina
117k	*Calder* and *Essington, the first 'Captain' class frigates to be returned to the US Navy after the war, at Brooklyn Navy Yard, 20 October 1945. Both had completed refits as Coastal Forces Control Ships for service in the East Indies Fleet before return. Note all Oerlikons aft of the funnel removed; four single Bofors also replaced the four Oerlikons forward of the bridge. All 3" guns on Essington* have spray sheilds, and Foxer gear is prominent on the sterns of both ships. Type SA radar at the masthead of both, and extra depth charge racks can be seen forward of the throwers. [Ministry of Defence photo, from the book "Allied Escort Ships of World War II (A Complete Survey)" by Peter Elliott]	Edib Krlicbegovic Bosnia - Hercegovina
105k	19 October 1945: Brooklyn, N.Y. - The crew of HMS *Calder* paying off at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. (Photo from the private collection of Electrical Artificer Ron Ayers as printed in "The Captain Class Frigates in the Second World War" by Donald Collingwood)	Bob Hurst Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom

History of HMS Calder (K.349) (ex-Formoe DE 58)
(No U.S. Navy service, History Not Available)

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
None Reported

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