HMS CAPEL (ex-DE 266) K 470

Named for Captain the Honorable Sir Thomas Bladen Capel (Trafalgar, 1805)
Type: GMT
Builder: BNY
Laid down as USS WINTLE
Sponsored by widow of Lt Cdr Wintle at launch
Keel laid 03/11/43
Launched 04/22/43
Commissioned 08/16/43
First CO: Lt Cdr P. McIver, RNVR
Unit of 1st EG
Served at Normandy
Sunk 12/26/44

From the research of Anne McCarthy,
with contributions by Pat Perrella and Pat Stephens, webmaster. March 2006
 

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