HMS Inglis (K570) was a in the Royal Navy. Built as USS Inglis (DE-525), an , the ship was transferred to the Royal Navy in 1944 under Lend-Lease.
Description The Evarts-class ships had an overall length of , a beam of , and a draught of at full load. They displaced at (standard) and at full load.Whitley, p. 152 The ships had a diesel–electric powertrain derived from a submarine propulsion systemFriedman, p. 143 with four General Motors 16-cylinder diesel engines providing power to four General Electric electric generators which sent electricity to four General Electric electric motors which drove the two propeller shafts. The destroyer escorts had enough power give them a speed of and enough fuel oil to give them a range of at . Their crew consisted of 198 officers and ratings.Lenton, pp. 199–200
The armament of the Evarts-class ships in British service consisted of three single mounts for 50-caliber /50 Mk 22 dual-purpose guns; one superfiring pair forward of the bridge and the third gun aft of the superstructure. Anti-aircraft defence was intended to consisted of a twin-gun mount for Bofors anti-aircraft (AA) guns atop the rear superstructure with nine Oerlikon AA guns located on the superstructure, but production shortages meant that that not all guns were fitted, or that additional Oerlikons replaced the Bofors guns. A Mark 10 Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar was positioned just behind the forward gun. The ships were also equipped with two depth charge rails at the stern and four "K-gun" depth charge throwers.Friedman, p. 478
Construction and career The ship was laid down on 25 September 1943Lenton, p. 203 at the Boston Navy Yard in Boston, Massachusetts, for the United States Navy. She was launched on 2 November 1943; accepted and transferred to Great Britain on 12 January 1944. Inglis escorted convoys along the West Coast of Africa and in the North Atlantic.
Inglis was returned to the U.S. Navy on 20 March 1946. She was sold to C.B. Baldridge, Bay, Ohio, in September 1947 and subsequently scrapped.
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