HMS Affleck

HMS Affleck was a which served during World War II. The ship was named after Sir Edmund Affleck, commander of at the Moonlight Battle in 1780 during the American Revolutionary War.

Originally destined for the US Navy as a turbo-electric (TE) type , HMS Affleck was provisionally given the name USS Oswald (later this name was reassigned to ). However, the delivery was diverted to the Royal Navy before the launch.

Actions

HMS Affleck served exclusively with the 1st Escort Group taking part in operations in the North Atlantic, off Normandy, and in the English Channel.

On 19 February 1944, together with , HMS Affleck picked up 54 survivors from the Panamanian merchant Colin which had been torpedoed and sunk the previous day in the North Atlantic in position by the Template:GS.

On 26 February 1944 in the North Atlantic at position HMS Affleck, together with and , sank Template:GS by the use of depth charges and then by use of main guns. When the damaged U-boat surfaced and tried to ram HMS Affleck, this action resulted in 36 dead and 16 survivors from U-91Template:'s crew.

On 1 March 1944 in the Northern Atlantic north of the Azores at position HMS Affleck together with HMS Gore, HMS Gould and sank Template:GS by the use of depth charges, resulting in 50 dead and 1 survivor from the submarine's crew.

On 16 March 1944 in the Straits of Gibraltar at position HMS Affleck together with the destroyer and three US Catalina aircraft (VP 63) sank Template:GS by the use of a hedgehog attack, resulting in 52 dead (all hands) from U-392Template:'s crew.

On 25 June 1944 HMS Affleck with attacked a submarine believed to be Template:GS by the use of depth charges, this resulted in the sinking of the submarine with the loss of all hands. This action took place south of Start Point. The Kriegsmarine had U-1191 listed as missing (no radio contact) since 12 June 1944.

On 26 December 1944 at 14:14 off the French coast near Cherbourg, Template:GS launched three acoustic torpedoes at the 1st Escort Group hitting Affleck and . This resulted in the sinking of Capel. Affleck was towed to port, where the ship was written off as a Constructive Total Loss.

Return to United States Navy

Affleck was returned to the US Navy in August 1945 in Britain, where she was sold on 24 January 1947 to the Lisbon-based Transcontinental Victory Commercial Corporation Ltd. She was renamed Nostra De La Luz and survived as a hulk until the 1970s.

General information

• Pennant (UK): K 462
• Pennant (US): DE 71

References

• The Captain Class Frigates in the Second World War by Donald Collingwood. published by Leo Cooper (1998), Template:ISBN.
• The Buckley-Class Destroyer Escorts by Bruce Hampton Franklin, published by Chatham Publishing (1999), Template:ISBN.

Public Domain This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entries can be found here and here.

External links

• Uboat.net page for HMS Affleck
• Uboat.net page for U-859
• Uboat.net page for U-91
• Uboat.net page for U-358
• Uboat.net page for U-392
• Uboat.net page for U-1191
• Uboat.net page for U-486
• captainclassfrigates.co.uk
• The Gazette 26 June 1945