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Frigate of the Royal Navy
For other ships with the same name, see
USS George .
History
Vereinigte Staaten
Name USS George
Namesake Eugene F. George
Builder Boston Navy Yard
Laid down 20 May 1943
Launched 8 July 1943
Fate Transferred to Royal Navy, 9 October 1943
Vereinigtes Königreich
Name HMS Goodson
Acquired 9 October 1943
Fate
Returned to the USN, 21 October 1944.
Sold 9 January 1947.
General characteristics
Class and type Evarts -class destroyer escort
Displacement 1,400 long tons (1,422 t)
Length 289 ft 6 in (88.24 m)
Beam 35 ft (11 m)
Draft 10 ft (3.0 m)
Speed 19 knots (22 mph; 35 km/h)
Complement 175
Armament
HMS Goodson (K480) , originally USS George (DE-276) , was an Evarts class destroyer escort , assigned to the United Kingdom under the lend-lease .
The ship was laid down as George on 20 May 1943 at the Boston Navy Yard , and named after Eugene Frank George , posthumously awarded the Navy Cross at Guadalcanal .
She was assigned to the United Kingdom under the lend-lease on 22 June 1943; launched on 8 July 1943; transferred to the United Kingdom on 9 October 1943; and commissioned in the British Royal Navy as HMS Goodson .
During the remainder of World War II , she served on escort and patrol duty in the Atlantic and along the English coast. She supported the Allied Invasion of Europe at Normandy on 6 June 1944. Damaged 25 June by U-984 commanded by Heinz Sieder , she was returned to the United States Navy on 21 October. On 9 January 1947 she was sold to John Lee of Belfast, Northern Ireland.
A subsequent vessel named George was launched 14 August 1943 at the Defoe Shipbuilding Company , Bay City, Michigan .
References
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships . The entry can be found here .
Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in June 1944
Shipwrecks
1 Jun: USS Herring
3 Jun: U-477 , WBS 2 Coburg
5 Jun: V 622 Almuth , USS Osprey
6 Jun: USS Corry , USS LCI(L)-93 , Minazuki , USS PC-1261 , HNoMS Svenner , V 421 Rauzan , HMS Wrestler
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 , V 206 Otto Bröhan , V 212 Friedrich Busse
13 Jun: HMS Boadicea , I-33 , Ro-36 , U-715
14 Jun: USS Golet
15 Jun: HMS Blackwood , M 507 , PA 1 , PA 2 , Shiratsuyu , U-860 , U-987 , V 202 Franz Westermann
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: Eurydice , I-185 , Sirène
24 Jun: Derrycunihy , I-52 , U-971 , U-1225
25 Jun: U-269
26 Jun: Aquileia , U-317 , U-719 , Harugiku Maru
27 Jun: Kizugawa Maru
28 Jun: V 213 Claus Bolten , Kondor , Nerissa
29 Jun: Toyama Maru , Tsugaru , U-988 , USS Valor
30 Jun: SS Nikkin Maru , U-478 , V 422 Kergroise
Unknown date: Bosna , USS LCT-209 , U-740
Other incidents