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HMS Cranstoun (K511)
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.〔
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