History
United States
Name	USS Dempsey (DE-267)
Namesake	U.S. Navy Lieutenant, junior grade Richard John Dempsey (1919-1942), killed in action aboard the heavy cruiser USS Vincennes (CA-44) when she was sunk in the Battle of Savo Island
Ordered	25 January 1942[1]
Builder	Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts
Laid down	11 March 1943[2]
Launched	22 April 1943
Sponsored by	Mrs. J. A. Dempsey
Commissioned	never
Fate	Transferred to United Kingdom 23 August 1943
Acquired	Returned by United Kingdom 5 March 1946
Fate	Sold 3[1][3] or 10[2][4] June 1947 for scrapping
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Cooke
Namesake	Captain John Cooke (c. 1762-1805), British naval officer killed in action as commanding officer of HMS Bellerophon at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805[4]
Acquired	23 August 1943
Commissioned	23 August 1943[1]
Fate	Returned to United States 5 March 1946[2]
General characteristics
Displacement	1,140 long tons (1,158 t)
Length	289.5 ft (88.2 m)
Beam	35 ft (11 m)
Draught	9 ft (2.7 m)
Propulsion	Four General Motors 278A 16-cylinder engines GE 7,040 bhp (5,250 kW) generators (4,800 kW) GE electric motors for 6,000 shp (4,500 kW) Two shafts
Speed	20 knots (37 km/h)
Range	5,000 nautical miles (9,260 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h)
Complement	156
Sensors and processing systems	SA & SL type radars Type 144 series Asdic MF Direction Finding antenna HF Direction Finding Type FH 4 antenna
Armament	3 × 3 in (76 mm) /50 Mk.22 guns 1 × twin Bofors 40 mm mount Mk.I 7–16 × 20 mm Oerlikon guns Mark 10 Hedgehog antisubmarine mortar Depth charges QF 2-pounder naval gun
Notes	Pennant number K471

HMS Cooke (K471) 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 Dempsey (DE-267), she served in the Royal Navy from 1943 to 1946.

The ship was laid down as the U.S. Navy destroyer escort USS Dempsey (DE-267), the first ship of the name, by the Boston Navy Yard in Boston, Massachusetts, on 11 March 1943^[2] and launched on 22 April 1943, sponsored by Mrs. J. A. Dempsey, mother of the late Lieutenant, junior grade Richard John Dempsey (1919-1942), for whom the ship was named. Dempsey was transferred to the United Kingdom under Lend-Lease upon completion on 23 August 1943.

Commissioned into service in the Royal Navy as HMS Cooke (K471) on 23 August 1943^[1] simultaneously with her transfer, the ship served on patrol and escort duty. On 29 June 1944 she joined the British frigates Domett, Duckworth, and Essington and a Royal Air Force Liberator aircraft of No. 244 Squadron in a depth charge attack that sank the German submarine U-988 in the English Channel west of Guernsey at 49°37′00″N 003°41′00″W / 49.61667°N 3.68333°W / 49.61667; -3.68333 (U-988 sunk). On 26 July 1944, she sank the German submarine U-214 with depth charges in the English Channel southeast of the Eddystone Rocks in position 49°58′00″N 003°30′00″W / 49.96667°N 3.50000°W / 49.96667; -3.50000 (U-214 sunk).^[1]

The Royal Navy returned Cooke to the U.S. Navy on 5 March 1946.

The United States sold Cooke on 3^[1][3] or 10^[2][4] June 1947 (sources vary) for scrapping.

•  This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
• Navsource Online: Destroyer Escort Photo Archive DE-267 Dempsey HMS Cooke (K-471)
• uboat.net HMS Cooke (K 471)
• Captain Class Frigate Association HMS Cooke K471 (DE 267)

• Photo gallery of HMS Dempsey (DE-267)

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United States Navy	Completed Evarts Wyffels Griswold Steele Carlson Bebas Crouter Brennan Doherty Austin Edgar G. Chase Edward C. Daly Gilmore Burden R. Hastings LeHardy Harold C. Thomas Wileman Charles R. Greer Whitman Wintle Dempsey Duffy Emery Stadtfeld Martin Sederstrom Fleming Tisdale Eisele Fair Manlove Greiner Wyman Lovering Sanders Brackett Reynolds Mitchell Donaldson Andres Decker Dobler Doneff Engstrom Seid Smartt Walter S. Brown William C. Miller Cabana Dionne Canfield Deede Elden Cloues Lake Lyman Crowley Rall Halloran Connolly Finnegan O'Toole John J. Powers Mason John M. Bermingham Cancelled Register / Creamer Ely Delbert W. Halsey Keppler Lloyd Thomas William C. Lawe Willard Keith DE-315 (Unnamed)
Royal Navy Part of Captain class	Completed Bayntun Bazely Berry Blackwood Burges Capel Drury Cooke Dacres Domett Foley Gardiner Garlies Goodall Goodson Gore Gould Grindall Hoste Inglis Inman Keats Kempthorne Kingsmill Lawford Lawson Pasley Loring Louis Manners Moorsom Mounsey
Republic of China Navy	Tai Kang (ex-Wyffels) Tai Ping (ex-Decker)
Preceded by: None Followed by: Buckley class
List of destroyer escorts of the United States Navy List of frigates of the Royal Navy