HMS Gould
{{short description|Frigate of the Royal Navy}}
{{other ships|USS Lovering}}
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{{Use British English|date=December 2016}}
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image= |Ship caption= }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=United States |Ship flag={{USN flag|1943}} |Ship class= |Ship name=USS Lovering (DE-272) |Ship namesake=U.S. Navy Ensign William Bacon Lovering (1913-1942), killed in action aboard the destroyer {{USS|Hammann|DD-412}} during the Battle of Midway on 6 June 1942 |Ship ordered=25 January 1942{{cite web |url=http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/5464.html |title=HMS Gould (K 476) |last=Helgason |first=Guðmundur |website=German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net }} |Ship awarded= |Ship builder=Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts |Ship laid down=23 April 1943 |Ship launched=4 June 1943 |Ship sponsor=Mrs. Joseph S. Lovering |Ship completed=18 September 1943 |Ship commissioned=never |Ship decommissioned= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship renamed= |Ship reclassified= |Ship refit= |Ship captured= |Ship struck= |Ship reinstated= |Ship fate=Transferred to United Kingdom 18 September 1943 |Ship homeport= }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header=title |Ship country=United Kingdom |Ship flag=File:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg |Ship class=Captain class frigate |Ship name=HMS Gould (K476) |Ship namesake=Admiral Sir Davidge Gould (1758-1847), British naval officer who was commanding officer of {{HMS|Audacious|1785|6}} at the Battle of the Nile in 1798[http://www.captainclassfrigates.co.uk/ships/K476.html Captain Class Frigate Association HMS Gould (K481)] |Ship ordered= |Ship awarded= |Ship builder= |Ship laid down= |Ship launched= |Ship acquired=18 September 1943 |Ship sponsor= |Ship commissioned=18 September 1943 |Ship recommissioned= |Ship decommissioned= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship renamed= |Ship reclassified= |Ship refit= |Ship captured= |Ship struck= |Ship reinstated= |Ship fate=Sunk by {{GS|U-358 | 2}}, 1 March 1944
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HMS Gould (K476) was a British Captain-class frigate of the Royal Navy in commission during World War II. Originally constructed as the United States Navy Evarts-class destroyer escort USS Lovering (DE-272), she served in the Royal Navy from 1943 until her sinking in 1944.
Construction and transfer
The ship was ordered on 25 January 1942 and laid down as the destroyer escort USS Lovering (DE-272), the first ship of the name, by the Boston Navy Yard in Boston, Massachusetts, on 20 May 1943. She was launched on 8 July 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Joseph S. Lovering, sister-in-law of the ship{{'}}s namesake, the late Ensign William B. Lovering. The United States transferred the ship upon completion to the United Kingdom under Lend-Lease on 18 September 1943.
Service history
The ship was commissioned into service in the Royal Navy as the frigate HMS Gould (K476) on 18 September 1943 simultaneously with her transfer. She served on convoy escort duty in the North Atlantic Ocean.
On 26 February 1944, Gould joined the British frigates {{HMS|Affleck|K462|6}} and {{HMS|Gore|K481|6}} in a depth-charge attack that sank the {{GS|U-91|1941|6}} in the North Atlantic at position {{coord|49|45||N|26|20||W|name=U-91 sunk}}.
On 29 February 1944, Gould was operating as part of the First Escort Group when she, Affleck, Gore, and the British frigate {{HMS|Garlies|K475|6}} detected the {{GS|U-358}} in the North Atlantic north-northeast of the Azores and began a depth-charge attack which continued through the night and into 1 March 1944, the four frigates dropping a combined 104 depth charges. Gore and Garlies were forced to withdraw to Gibraltar to refuel on 1 March, but Affleck and Gould continued to attack U-358. During the afternoon of 1 March, U-358 succeeded in torpedoing and sinking Gould with a G7es – known to the Allies as "GNAT" – torpedo at position {{coord|45|46|N|23|16|W|name=HMS Gould (K476) sunk}}. Ungoed, six other officers, and 116 ratings died in the sinking, and only 14 of Gould{{'}}s crew survived. U-358 was soon forced to surface after 38 hours submerged and was sunk by gunfire from Affleck at position {{coord|45|46|N|23|16|W|name=U-358 sunk}}.{{cite web
|url=http://uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/3206.html
|title=Ships hit by U-boats: HMS Gould (K476)
|last=Helgason
|first=Guðmundur
|website=German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net
}}
References
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External links
- {{DANFS|https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/l/lovering.html}}
- [http://www.navsource.org/archives/06/272.htm Navsource Online: Destroyer Escort Photo Archive Lovering (DE-272) - HMS Gould (K-476)]
- {{cite web
|url=http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/5464.html
|title=HMS Gould (K 476)
|last=Helgason
|first=Guðmundur
|website=German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net
}}
- {{cite web
|url=http://uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/3206.html
|title=Ships hit by U-boats: HMS Gould (K 476)
|last=Helgason
|first=Guðmundur
|website=German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net
}}
- [http://www.captainclassfrigates.co.uk/ships/K476.html Captain Class Frigate Association HMS Gould K476 (DE 272)]
{{Captains class frigate}}
{{Evarts class destroyer escort}}
{{March 1944 shipwrecks}}
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Category:Captain-class frigates
Category:Evarts-class destroyer escorts
Category:World War II frigates of the United Kingdom
Category:World War II frigates and destroyer escorts of the United States
Category:Ships built in Boston
Category:Ships sunk by German submarines in World War II