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HMS Cotton (K 510)

Frigate of the Captain class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeFrigate
ClassCaptain 
PennantK 510 
Built byBethlehem-Hingham Shipyard Inc. (Hingham, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down2 Jun, 1943 
Launched21 Aug, 1943 
Commissioned8 Nov, 1943 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Assigned USN penant DE 81 but not named.

Returned to the USN on 26 November 1945. Stricken and scrapped.

Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. Isaac William Trant Beloe, RN
8 November 1943 – 25 June 1945

Lt. Dudley Leslie Davenport, RN
25 June 1945 – 29 August 1945

T/Lt. William Alexander Wood, RANVR
29 August 1945 – still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List 

Former nameDE 81

Noteable events involving Cotton include:

29 Apr, 1945
The German submarine U-286 was sunk in the Barents Sea north of Murmansk, Russia, in position 69º29'N, 33º37'E, by depth charges from the British frigates HMS Loch Insh (T/A/Lt.Cdr. E.W.C. Dempster, DSC, RNVR), HMS Anguilla (T/A/Lt.Cdr. C. Morrison-Payne, RNVR) and HMS Cotton (Lt.Cdr. I.W.T. Beloe, RN). (see map)


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