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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate	Modification
Culver (ex-WPG49 Mendota)	Y87	1415	Bethlehem, Quincy, USA	6/1928	27.11.1928	3.1929 // 4.1941	sunk 31.1.1942	Tahoe group
Fishguard (ex-WPG47 Tahoe)	Y59	1413	Bethlehem, Quincy, USA	12/1927	12.6.1928	10.1928 // 4.1941	to USA 3.1946	Tahoe group
Hartland (ex-WPG46 Pontchartrain)	Y00	1412	Bethlehem, Quincy, USA	11/1927	16.6.1928	10.1928 // 4.1941	sunk 8.11.1942	Tahoe group
Lulworth (ex-WPG45 Chelan)	Y60	1411	Bethlehem, Quincy, USA	11/1927	19.5.1928	8.1928 // 5.1941	to USA 2.1946	Tahoe group
Sennen (ex-WPG48 Champlain)	Y21	1414	Bethlehem, Quincy, USA	5/1928	11.10.1928	1.1929 // 5.1941	to USA 3.1946	Tahoe group
Banff (ex-WPG52 Saranac)	Y43		General Engineering, Alameda, USA		12.4.1930	10.1930 // 4.1941	to USA 2.1946 (Tampa)	Saranac group
Gorleston (ex-WPG50 Itasca)	Y92		General Engineering, Alameda, USA		16.11.1929	7.1930 // 5.1941	to USA 4.1946	Saranac group
Landguard (ex-WPG53 Shoshone)	Y56		General Engineering, Alameda, USA		11.9.1930	1.1931 // 5.1941	BU 10.1949	Saranac group
Totland (ex-WPG54 Cayuga)	Y88	797	Staten Island Port, Richmond, USA		8.10.1931	3.1932 // 5.1941	to USA 5.1946 (Mocoma)	Saranac group
Walney (ex-WPG51 Sebago)	Y04		General Engineering, Alameda, USA		10.2.1930	9.1930 // 5.1941	sunk 8.11.1942	Saranac group

Technical data

Max speed, kts, kn	17
Displacement trials, t	1662
Displacement full, t	2075
Length, m	72.9 wl 76.2 oa
Breadth, m	12.8
Draught, m	3.94 trials
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 set General Electric geared steam turbines, 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Power, h. p.	3350
Fuel, t	oil 300
Endurance, nm(kts)	8000(8)
Armament	1 x 1 - 127/51 Mk 7.8, 4 x 1 - 12.7/90
Complement	97

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Project history

USN Coast Guard cutters, transferred to RN by lend-lease in April-June, 1941. They concerned to two very close Tahoe and Saranac classes, differing only in details. Cutters intended for service in Northern Atlantic (ice circumstances observation, for what their hulls were strengthened). Machinery of the ships included prevalent enough in the USA, but rare in the UK, turbo-electric gear. They were differed from other sloops by good habitability for their dimensions, however a number of the lacks was generic in them, not allowing to consider them as rigorous combat ships: the hull had insufficient subdivision on watertight compartments, bulkheads did not reach an upper deck which besides on the big extent was wood (not steel, sheathed by a wood, and continuous wood as by sailing frigates). Insufficient, to RN measures, there was also stability.     After transfer to UK cutters, reclassified to sloops, have passed the modernization directed on correction of the majority of these lacks. In particular, 30ts of a ballast were laid, some re-planning of internal spaces had conducted and absolutely improper armament was modernized for ASW operations.They received sonar, 2 DCT and DCR.

Modernizations

mid-1941, Banff, Fishguard, Walney: + 3 x 1 - 76/45 20cwt QF Mk I/II/III/IV, 2 DCT, 2 DCR (100 DC), type 271 radar

mid-1941, Culver, Lulworth, Sennen, Totland: - 1 x 1 - 127/51; + 1 x 1 - 102/45 QF Mk V, 1 x 1 - 76/45 20cwt QF Mk I/II/III/IV, 2 DCT, 2 DCR (100), type 271 radar

mid-1941, Gorleston, Landguard: + 1 x 1 - 76/45 20cwt QF Mk I/II/III/IV, 2 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk VIII, 2 DCT, 2 DCR (100), type 271 radar

mid-1941, Hartland: - 1 x 1 - 127/51; + 1 x 1 - 102/45 QF Mk V, 3 x 1 - 76/45 20cwt QF Mk I/II/III/IV, 2 DCT, 2 DCR (100), type 271 radar

1943, Gorleston: - 1 x 1 -127/51; + 1 x 1 - 102/45 QF Mk V

1943, Banff, Fishguard: - 1 x 1 - 127/51, 4 x 1 - 12.7/94; + 1 x 1 - 102/45 QF Mk V, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV

1943, Landguard: - 4 x 1 - 12.7/94; + 4 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV

1943, Lulworth, Sennen, Totland: - 4 x 1 - 12.7/94; + 2 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk VIII, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV

1944 - 1945, Banff: + 3 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog ASWRL, type 144 sonar

1944 - 1945, Fishguard: - 3 x 1 - 76/45; + 1 x 1 - 40/56 Bofors Mk III, 2 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk VIII, 3 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog ASWRL, type 144 sonar

1944 - 1945, Gorleston: - 1 x 1 - 76/45; + 1 x 1 - 40/56 Bofors Mk III, 2 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk VIII, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog ASWRL, type 144 sonar

1944 - 1945, Landguard, Lulworth, Sennen, Totland: + 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog ASWRL, type 144 sonar

1/1946, Landguard: 1 x 1 - 127/51 Mk 10, 1 x 1 - 76/45 Mk II, 2 x 1 - 40/39 Mk VIII, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog ASWRL, 2 DCT, 2 DCR (100), type 271 radar, type 144 sonar

1/1946, Gorleston: 1 x 1 - 102/45 CP Mk II, 1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk III, 4 x 1 - 40/39 Mk VIII, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog ASWRL, 2 DCT, 2 DCR (100), type 271 radar, type 144 sonar

1/1946, Lulworth, Sennen, Totland: 1 x 1 - 102/45 CP Mk II, 1 x 1 - 76/45 Mk II, 2 x 1 - 40/39 Mk VIII, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog ASWRL, 2 DCT, 2 DCR (100), type 271 radar, type 144 sonar

1/1946, Fishguard: 1 x 1 - 102/45 CP Mk II, 1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk III, 2 x 1 - 40/39 Mk VIII, 7 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog ASWRL, 2 DCT, 2 DCR (100), type 271 radar, type 144 sonar

1/1946, Banff: 1 x 1 - 102/45 CP Mk II, 3 x 1 - 76/45 Mk II, 7 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog ASWRL, 2 DCT, 2 DCR (100), type 271 radar, type 144 sonar

Naval service

Culver was sunk by German submarine U105 in Northern Atlantic 31.1.1942. Walney and Hartland were sunk by gunfire of French coastal battery and destroyers (Hartland by Typhon and Walney by Épervier and Tramontane) at Oran 8.11.1942.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.