HMS Lawford (K514)

	HMS Lawford at Liverpool, 13 February 1944
History
United States
Name	USS Lawford (DE-516)
Fate	Transferred to Royal Navy under Lend-Lease
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Lawford (K514)
Fate	Sunk by Aerial attack during Normandy Landings, 8 June 1944
General characteristics
Class and type	Evarts-class destroyer escort
Displacement	1,140 tons
Length	289.5 ft (88.2 m)
Beam	35 ft (11 m)
Draught	9 ft (2.7 m)
Propulsion	Four General Motors 278A 16-cylinder engines; GE 7,040 bhp (5,250 kW) generators (4,800 kW); GE electric motors for 6,000 shp (4,500 kW); Two shafts;
Speed	20 knots (37 km/h)
Range	5,000 nautical miles (9,260 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h)
Complement	156
Sensors and ; processing systems	SA & SL type radars; Type 144 series Asdic; MF Direction Finding antenna; HF Direction Finding Type FH 4 antenna;
Armament	3 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 Mk.22 guns; 1 × twin Bofors 40 mm mount Mk.I; 7–16 × 20 mm Oerlikon guns; Mark 10 Hedgehog antisubmarine mortar; Depth charges; QF 2-pounder naval gun;

HMS Lawford (K514) was a Royal Navy converted Captain class frigate (pennant DE-516), built in the US in 1944. She was converted into an HQ ship for the Normandy landings. On 8 June 1944, whilst operating off Juno Beach, she was hit by enemy fire during an air attack and sunk. Thirty-seven of her crew died. The Royal Navy's damage summary report^[1] states that the ship was hit by an "aerial torpedo", which has been taken to mean a torpedo dropped from an aircraft. However, a survey of the ship undertaken as part of the Channel 4 TV series "Wreck Detectives"^[2] found evidence that the vessel was broken up and sunk by an internal explosion, indicating a hit from one or more bombs or from an early guided missile such as an Hs-293 or (less likely) a Fritz X. The ship was sunk by KG 100.

Further consideration suggests that the term "aerial torpedo" used in the RN damage summaries was actually intended to refer to guided missiles.^[2]

The wreck lies in 21 meters of water at

49°25′43″N 00°23′47″W / 49.42861°N 0.39639°W.

Notes[]

^ Donald. The Captain Class Frigates in the Second World War. pp. 152–153.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Channel4.com - Wreck Detectives - The wrecks - HMS Lawford - Introduction". Channel 4. Retrieved 23 February 2008.

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[Donald-1] Donald. The Captain Class Frigates in the Second World War. pp. 152–153.

[c4-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Channel4.com - Wreck Detectives - The wrecks - HMS Lawford - Introduction". Channel 4. Retrieved 23 February 2008.

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show v t Captain-class frigates
Ex- Evarts class (diesel-electric type)	Bayntun Bazely Berry Blackwood Cockburn / Drury Burges Capel Cooke Dacres Domett Foley Garlies Gould Grindall Gardiner Goodall Goodson Gore Keats Kempthorne Kingsmill Lawford Louis Lawson Lindsay / Pasley Loring Mitchell / Hoste Moorsom Manners Mounsey Inglis Inman
Ex- Buckley class (turbo-electric type)	Bentinck Byard Calder Duckworth Duff Essington Affleck Aylmer Balfour Bentley Bickerton Bligh Braithwaite Bullen Byron Conn Cotton Cranstoun Cubitt Curzon Dakins Deane Ekins Fitzroy Redmill Retalick Russell / Halsted Riou Rutherford Cosby Rowley Rupert Stockham Seymour Spragge Stayner Thornborough Trollope Tyler Torrington Narborough Waldegrave Whitaker Holmes Hargood Hotham
Preceded by: Colony class Followed by: Loch class
List of frigates of the Royal Navy

show v t Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in June 1944
Shipwrecks	1 Jun: USS Herring 3 Jun: U-477, Coburg 5 Jun: USS Osprey 6 Jun: USS Corry, USS LCI(L)-93, Minazuki, USS PC-1261, HNoMS Svenner 7 Jun: HMS Centurion, Empire Defiance, Hayanami, USS Susan B. Anthony, USS Tide, U-629, U-955 8 Jun: Audacious, Harusame, James Iredell, Kazagumo, HMS Lawford, USS Rich, U-373, U-441, U-970, West Grama 9 Jun: Courbet, Dover Hill, HMS Durban, Empire Bunting, Empire Flamingo, Matsukaze, USS Meredith, HNLMS Sumatra, Tanikaze, Z32, ZH1 10 Jun: USS Glennon, Innsbruck, Mistral, Ro-111, U-821 11 Jun: USS Partridge, Ro-42, U-980 12 Jun: Kainan Maru, HMS Sickle, U-490 13 Jun: HMS Boadicea, I-33, Ro-36, U-715 14 Jun: USS Golet 15 Jun: HMS Blackwood, M 507, Shiratsuyu, U-860, U-987 16 Jun: I-6, Ro-44, U-998 17 Jun: Ro-114, Ro-117 18 Jun: Albert C. Field, U-767 19 Jun: I-184, Shōkaku, Taihō 20 Jun: Hiyō, HMAS Matafele 21 Jun: Bolzano, HMS Fury 22 Jun: I-185 24 Jun: Derrycunihy, I-52, U-971, U-1225 25 Jun: U-269 26 Jun: U-317, U-719 27 Jun: Kizugawa Maru 29 Jun: Toyama Maru, Tsugaru, U-988, USS Valor 30 Jun: U-478, Nikkin Maru Unknown date: Bosna, USS LCT-209, U-740
Other incidents	6 Jun: HMS Wrestler 7 Jun: USS Meredith 11 Jun: HMS Halsted 16 Jun: U-998 23 Jun: HMS Scylla 25 Jun: HMS Glasgow, HMS Goodson 26 Jun: Gorizia Unknown date: HMS Sickle
1943 1944 1945 May 1944 July 1944

History
HMS Lawford at Liverpool, 13 February 1944
United States
Name	USS Lawford (DE-516)
Fate	Transferred to Royal Navy under Lend-Lease
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Lawford (K514)
Fate	Sunk by Aerial attack during Normandy Landings, 8 June 1944
General characteristics
Class and type	Evarts-class destroyer escort
Displacement	1,140 tons
Length	289.5 ft (88.2 m)
Beam	35 ft (11 m)
Draught	9 ft (2.7 m)
Propulsion	Four General Motors 278A 16-cylinder engines GE 7,040 bhp (5,250 kW) generators (4,800 kW) GE electric motors for 6,000 shp (4,500 kW) Two shafts
Speed	20 knots (37 km/h)
Range	5,000 nautical miles (9,260 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h)
Complement	156
Sensors and processing systems	SA & SL type radars Type 144 series Asdic MF Direction Finding antenna HF Direction Finding Type FH 4 antenna
Armament	3 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 Mk.22 guns 1 × twin Bofors 40 mm mount Mk.I 7–16 × 20 mm Oerlikon guns Mark 10 Hedgehog antisubmarine mortar Depth charges QF 2-pounder naval gun

HMS Lawford (K514)

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