Builder: Fairfields
Laid down: 21 October 1941
Launched: 14 October 1942
Completed: 1 April 1943
Reclassified: As a frigate in 1947
Fate: Broken up July 1965
General characteristics
Class and type: Modified Black Swan class sloop
Displacement: 1,350 tons
Length: 299 ft 6 in (91.3 m)
Beam: 38 ft 6 in (11.7 m)
Draught: 11 ft (3.4 m)
Propulsion: Geared turbines, 2 shafts
4,300 hp (3.21 MW)
Speed: 20 knots (37 km/h)
Range: 7,500 nmi (13,900 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h)
Complement: 192
Armament: 6 × 4-inch (102 mm) AA guns (3 × 2), 4 × 2 pdr AA pom-pom
12 × 20 mm Oerlikon AA (6 × 2)
Service record
Part of: 2nd Support Group
Commanders: Frederick John Walker
Operations: Battle of the Atlantic
HMS Starling (U66) was a Modified Black Swan-class sloop of the Royal Navy. She was built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company at Govan, Scotland, launched on 14 October 1942, and commissioned on 1 April 1943.
In the Second Battle of the Atlantic in World War II, Starling was the flagship of Captain Frederick John Walker's Second Support Group, a flotilla of six sloops not tied down to convoy protection, but free to hunt down U-boats wherever found. The other ships of the group were HMS Cygnet, HMS Kite, HMS Wild Goose, HMS Woodpecker, and HMS Wren.
Starling participated in the sinking of fifteen U-boats:
Starling was scrapped in 1965.
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