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DE 517
HMS Louis (K.515)

Specifications:
Class: Evarts (Lend-Lease) (Royal Navy Captain Class)
Type: GMT (diesel-electric tandem motor drive, short hull, 3" guns)
Displacement: 1,140 tons (light), 1,430 tons (full)
Length: 283' 6" (wl), 289' 5" (oa)
Beam: 35' 0" (extreme)
Draft: 11' 0" (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 x 20mm Mk 4 AA, 4 Mk6 depth charge projectors, 2 Mk9 depth charge tracks
Complement: 15 / 183
HMS Louis (K.515) Building and Operational Data:
  • 09 July 1943: Keel laid by the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Mass.
  • 13 August 1943: Launched
  • 09 November 1943: Transferred to Great Britain as Lend-Lease, commissioned as HMS Louis (K.515)
  • 20 March 1946: Returned to U.S. Navy custody at the Philadelphia Navy Yard
  • 17 June 1946: Sold to the State of Pennsylvania
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    HMS Louis 135k undated wartime image (Photo is imprinted R. Perkins, Pennyroyal, Brixham, Devon) Paul Silverstone
    HMS Louis 67k undated wartime image of Louis (Photo by Wright & Logan] Tim Rizzuto
    Executive Director
    USS Slater (DE 765) Memorial
    HMS Louis 80k undated wartime image: Anchored together with HMS Statice (K.281). Statice, a Flower Class corvette was built to be transferred to the U.S. Navy as USS Vim (PG 99), but was retained by the Royal Navy. Nick Tiberio
    View the HMS Louis (K.515) (ex-DE 517) DANFS history entry
    located on the Naval History and Heritage Command web site.
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