a Royal Navy Engineering research team experimenting with gas turbine engines. Hotham was returned on 25 April 1952 and simultaneously transferred back to the United Kingdom under the Mutual Defence Assistance Program. The partially stripped vessel was returned to United States custody on 13 March 1956. In film Much of the Robert Mitchum film The Enemy Below (1957) was filmed in , a Buckley-class destroyer escort, of the same type as the Captain class. The rest of the film is set in the U-boat that it is hunting. has a cameo in the final burial scene. Memorial On 17 April 2005 a memorial to the Captain class, those who served and those killed in action while serving in them was dedicated at the National Memorial Arboretum near Alrewas, Staffordshire. See also Coastal Forces of the Royal Navy Colony-class frigate The Enemy Below (a 1957 war film partially filmed on a Buckley-class destroyer escort) List of destroyer escorts of the United States Navy List of frigate classes of the Royal Navy (the Destroyer Escort Historical Museum). List of ship classes of World War II References Works cited Further reading External links http://www.desausa.org/ Destroyer Escort Sailors Association (DESA). https://web.archive.org/web/20070301070801/http://www.captainclassfrigates.co.uk/ the Captain Class Frigates Association. http://www.uboat.net uboat.net – Allied Warships – Captain class Frigates http://www.nationalmemorialarboretum.org/ The National Memorial Arboretum Convoy escort movements for Captain-class frigates Frigate classes Ship classes of the Royal Navy