HMS Capel K 470 (DE 266)
Evarts Class
Named after Captain T Capel of the Phoebe at Trafalgar
- Laid Down
- 11th March 1943 at Boston Navy Yard
- Launched
- 22nd April 1943
- Commissioned
- 16th August 1943
- Date returned to US Navy
- Not returned to US Navy
- Fate
- Torpedoed by U 486 on 26th December 1944 off Cherbourg and sunk. 80 members of her crew were
killed.
- Commanding Officers
- Lt Cdr P McIver RNVR August 1943, Lt B Heslop RN November 1943.
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