Allied Warships

HMS Hoste (K 566)

Frigate of the Captain class


HMS Hoste as painted by T/Lt Frank Greenaway, RNVR - photo courtesy Jeremy Greenaway.

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeFrigate
ClassCaptain 
PennantK 566 
Built byBoston Navy Yard (Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down14 Aug 1943 
Launched24 Sep 1943 
Commissioned3 Dec 1943 
End service 
History

Assigned USN penant DE 521 but not named. First named HMS Mitchell but then renamed.

Returned to the USN on 22 August 1945. Scrapped.

 
Former nameUSS Hoste DE 521

Commands listed for HMS Hoste (K 566)

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CommanderFromTo
1Lt. Keith Burns Hopkins, DSC, RNVR14 Sep 1943Feb 1944
2Lt. Peter James Hill Hoare, RNFeb 1944mid 1945

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Notable events involving Hoste include:


27 Mar 1944
HMS Uther (Lt. A.A. Catlow, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Tobermory with HMS Hoste (Lt. P.J.H. Hoare, RN) and HMS Inglis (Lt. R.S. Beveridge, RN). (1)

5 Dec 1944
HMS Safari (Lt.Cdr.(Retd.) J.R.G. Harvey, RN) conducted attack exercises for the C.O.Q.C. (Commanding Officers Qualifying Course) in the Clyde area during which HMS Walker (Lt. T.W. Lancaster, DSC, RN), HMS Deane (A/Lt.Cdr. V.A. Hickson, DSO, RN) and HMS Hoste (Lt. P.J.H. Hoare, RN) served as targets. (2)

28 Dec 1944
HMS Safari (Lt.Cdr.(Retd.) J.R.G. Harvey, RN) conducted attack exercises for the C.O.Q.C. (Commanding Officers Qualifying Course) in the Clyde area during which HMS Hoste (Lt. P.J.H. Hoare, RN) and HMS Milford (Cdr.(Retd.) G.G. Slade, RN) served as targets. These also included night attack exercises with HMS Hoste. (2)

Media links


The Captain Class Frigates in the Second World War
Collingwood, Donald

Sources

  1. ADM 173/19326
  2. ADM 173/18628

ADM numbers indicate documents at the British National Archives at Kew, London.


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