AHC Design the ideal escort vessel for WW2

What is wrong with the US DE? Why worry about stuffing their plant into a Loch hull? The DEs were mass production ships that didn't use existing capacity. If you want SQUID I'm sure it could be incorporated (several other weapon systems were) they had good AAW as well as ASW outfits and they even held their own (yes they sacrificed themselves but they protected their charges) in an anti surface battle (and their torpedoes were needed then)

A case could be made that they were the only class that were used successfully in all phases of their planned missions (anti air off Okinawa, Anti Surface off Leyte, and Anti Sub in both the Atlantic and Pacific)

The Lochs are pretty well known for having one of the best sea keeping hulls available at that time after some work at Haslar, no slight on the Captain class DEs is intended, also slightly bigger hull so she can carry the sensors and weapons needed, it's just my opinion feel free to propose what you like :).

Commercial scantlings mean that your sacrificing better quality steel and a stronger hull girder to get a cheaper ship quicker, fine for ASW but you really want the better warship standards if your going to send it dashing around at 30 odd knots. Warship standards generally mean it can take a bit more of a battering as well in comparison to a commercial hull.

Could the lead in diesel technology the Germans had come from the earlier use of diesels on the german railways allowing better development?
 
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