HMS Deane was a Captain-class frigate , originally to be built for the U.S. Navy as a Buckley-class destroyer escort.

Before she was finished in 1943, she was transferred to the Royal Navy under the terms of Lend-Lease, and saw service during World War II.

Constructed by the Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard Inc. in Massachusetts, and was assigned with the hull number DE-86 but no name.

The warship was launched on 29 September 1943 and was commissioned into the Royal Navy on 26 November of that year.

The frigate was also one of the ships tasked with escorting and overseeing the surrender of German U-boats at the end of the war.