HMS Cranstoun
HMS "Cranstoun" (K511) was a of the British Royal Navy that served in the last two years of World War II. The ship was laid down as a at the Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard at Hingham, Massachusetts on 9 June 1943, with the hull number DE-82, and launched on 28 August 1943. The ship was transferred to the UK under Lend-Lease on 13 November 1943, and named after Captain James Cranstoun, an officer who served in the American Revolutionary and French Revolutionary Wars. Service history. "Cranstoun" served as a convoy escort, and was attached to the Nore Command , and then the 19th Escort Group. At 21:14 on the evening of 15 April 1945 "Cranstoun" and , while part of the escort to Convoy TBC 128, detected the in Bigbury Bay, Devon. The two ships mounted a coordinated attack, with "Loch Killin" using her Squid anti-submarine mortar three times and "Cranstoun" her Hedgehog mortar once, to force the U-boat to the surface. then also joined the attack, as the U-boat was illuminated by the ship's searchlights and fired on with 20 mm and 40 mm guns. "U-1063" attempted to escape, but "Loch Killin" attacked with depth  charges and sank her. Only 17 of the crew survived. "Cranstoun" was returned to the U.S. Navy on 3 December 1945, struck from the Navy List on 7 February 1946, and sold for scrapping on 20 November 1947.