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- Colony-class_frigate length "92354.4".
- Colony-class_frigate abstract "The Colony class frigates were a class of 21 ships constructed in the United States by Walsh-Kaiser of Providence, Rhode Island for transfer under Lend-Lease to the Royal Navy in 1944. They were given the names of relatively minor colonies as names of large colonies had been used for the Crown Colony class cruisers.The ships were built as United States Navy Tacoma-class patrol frigates, a design that was an adaptation of the Royal Navy River-class frigate, with modifications made mainly to use materials and parts more readily available in the United States. For example, American 3-inch (76 mm) guns were used as the main surface armament in the Tacoma- and Colony-class frigates instead of the British 4-inch (100 mm) guns of the River class. They were mass-produced to mercantile standards to enable their speedy construction in shipyards that did not normally build warships. They were built more quickly than British shipyards could build the Rivers, but the quicker build required more man-hours and sterling cost was about twice that of a River. Upon transfer to the Royal Navy, each ship underwent modifications to bring her in line with Royal Navy requirements.Uniquely among the Colony-class frigates, and indeed among all World War II frigates, HMS Caicos was fitted and used as an aircraft detection frigate, stationed in the North Sea to detect V-1 flying bombs targeted against Great Britain. The other 20 ships served on patrol and convoy escort duties during the latter part of World War II. The ships are mentioned in HM Frigate by Nicholas Monsarrat, a very slim volume published under wartime censorship rules.Post-war, the Royal Navy returned one of the ships to the U.S. Navy in 1945 and the rest during 1946. None saw U.S. Navy service. Two of the ships were sold into mercantile service in Egypt, surviving until 1956, and Caicos was sold to Argentina in 1947 and served in the Argentine Navy until 1969. The United States scrapped the rest between 1947 and 1949, as they were considered inferior to destroyer escorts, which the U.S. Navy had in ample numbers, in every aspect except range.".
- Colony-class_frigate length "92.3544".
- Colony-class_frigate shipBeam "11.2776".
- Colony-class_frigate shipDraft "3.9624".
- Colony-class_frigate thumbnail HMS_Dominica_(K507)_IWM_A_25639.jpg?width=300.
- Colony-class_frigate topSpeed "37.04".
- Colony-class_frigate type Frigate.
- Colony-class_frigate wikiPageExternalLink class.html?ID=8.
- Colony-class_frigate wikiPageExternalLink walshkaiser.htm.
- Colony-class_frigate wikiPageID "30865943".
- Colony-class_frigate wikiPageLength "6388".
- Colony-class_frigate wikiPageOutDegree "36".
- Colony-class_frigate wikiPageRevisionID "685187818".
- Colony-class_frigate wikiPageWikiLink 50_caliber_gun.
- Colony-class_frigate wikiPageWikiLink Argentina.
- Colony-class_frigate wikiPageWikiLink Argentine_Navy.
- Colony-class_frigate wikiPageWikiLink Blockship.
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- Colony-class_frigate wikiPageWikiLink Category:1940s_ships.
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- Colony-class_frigate wikiPageWikiLink Category:Frigate_classes.
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- Colony-class_frigate wikiPageWikiLink Censorship.
- Colony-class_frigate wikiPageWikiLink Convoy.
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- Colony-class_frigate wikiPageWikiLink Depth_charge.
- Colony-class_frigate wikiPageWikiLink Destroyer_escort.
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- Colony-class_frigate wikiPageWikiLink Frigate.
- Colony-class_frigate wikiPageWikiLink Great_Britain.
- Colony-class_frigate wikiPageWikiLink Gulf_of_Suez.
- Colony-class_frigate wikiPageWikiLink HMS_Caicos_(K505).
- Colony-class_frigate wikiPageWikiLink Hedgehog_(weapon).
- Colony-class_frigate wikiPageWikiLink Lend-Lease.
- Colony-class_frigate wikiPageWikiLink Merchant_vessel.
- Colony-class_frigate wikiPageWikiLink Nicholas_Monsarrat.
- Colony-class_frigate wikiPageWikiLink North_Sea.
- Colony-class_frigate wikiPageWikiLink Pound_sterling.
- Colony-class_frigate wikiPageWikiLink Providence,_Rhode_Island.
- Colony-class_frigate wikiPageWikiLink River-class_frigate.
- Colony-class_frigate wikiPageWikiLink Royal_Navy.
- Colony-class_frigate wikiPageWikiLink Suez_Canal.
- Colony-class_frigate wikiPageWikiLink Tacoma-class_frigate.
- Colony-class_frigate wikiPageWikiLink United_States_Navy.
- Colony-class_frigate wikiPageWikiLink V-1_flying_bomb.
- Colony-class_frigate wikiPageWikiLink Walsh-Kaiser_Company.
- Colony-class_frigate wikiPageWikiLink File:HMS_Dominica_(K507)_IWM_A_25639.jpg.
- Colony-class_frigate wikiPageWikiLinkText "Colony class".
- Colony-class_frigate wikiPageWikiLinkText "Colony-class frigate".
- Colony-class_frigate wikiPageWikiLinkText "Colony-class".
- Colony-class_frigate builtRange "1943".
- Colony-class_frigate inCommissionRange "*1943–1946 *1947-1969".
- Colony-class_frigate operators "* *".
- Colony-class_frigate shipArmament "*3 × 3 inch/50 AA guns *4 × 40 mm guns *9 × 20 mm *1 × Hedgehog projector *8 × Y gun depth charge projectors *2 × Depth charge racks".
- Colony-class_frigate shipCaption "HMS Dominica in February 1944".
- Colony-class_frigate shipComplement "190".
- Colony-class_frigate shipImage "300".
- Colony-class_frigate shipPropulsion "*3 × boilers *2 × turbines, 5,500 SHP each *2 shafts".
- Colony-class_frigate shipType Frigate.
- Colony-class_frigate totalShipsCompleted "21".
- Colony-class_frigate totalShipsRetired "21".
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- Colony-class_frigate wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Infobox_ship_image.
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- Colony-class_frigate wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Refimprove.
- Colony-class_frigate wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Colony-class_frigate wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Tacoma_class_patrol_frigate.
- Colony-class_frigate wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Use_dmy_dates.
- Colony-class_frigate wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:WWIIBritishShips.
- Colony-class_frigate subject Category:1940s_ships.
- Colony-class_frigate subject Category:Colony-class_frigates.
- Colony-class_frigate subject Category:Frigate_classes.
- Colony-class_frigate subject Category:World_War_II_frigates_of_the_United_Kingdom.
- Colony-class_frigate hypernym Ships.
- Colony-class_frigate type MeanOfTransportation.
- Colony-class_frigate type Ship.
- Colony-class_frigate type Class.
- Colony-class_frigate type Ship.
- Colony-class_frigate type Vessel.
- Colony-class_frigate type Product.
- Colony-class_frigate type DesignedArtifact.
- Colony-class_frigate type Thing.
- Colony-class_frigate type Q11446.
- Colony-class_frigate comment "The Colony class frigates were a class of 21 ships constructed in the United States by Walsh-Kaiser of Providence, Rhode Island for transfer under Lend-Lease to the Royal Navy in 1944.".
- Colony-class_frigate label "Colony-class frigate".
- Colony-class_frigate sameAs Q3793581.
- Colony-class_frigate sameAs ناوچه_کلاس_کولونی.
- Colony-class_frigate sameAs Colony-luokka.
- Colony-class_frigate sameAs m.025shc7.
- Colony-class_frigate sameAs Colony_sınıfı_fırkateyn.
- Colony-class_frigate sameAs Q3793581.
- Colony-class_frigate wasDerivedFrom Colony-class_frigate?oldid=685187818.
- Colony-class_frigate depiction HMS_Dominica_(K507)_IWM_A_25639.jpg.
- Colony-class_frigate isPrimaryTopicOf Colony-class_frigate.