HMS Aldenham
Type III Hunt-class destroyer
Service
- as HMS Aldenham? — 14 December 19441,931 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Aldenham
- Pennant / hull number
- L22
- Builder
- Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
- Ordered
- 4 July 1940
- Laid down
- 22 August 1940
- Launched
- 27 August 1941
- Fate
- Sunk in the Adriatic Sea, 14 December 1944, at 44 (1944)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,050 long tons (1,067 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,435 long tons (1,458 t)
- Length
- 85.3 m (279.9 ft) OA
- Beam
- 10.16 m (33.3 ft)
- Draught
- 3.51 m (11.5 ft)
- Speed
- 27 knots (50 km/h, 31.1 mph)
- Range
- 2,350 nmi (4,352 km)
- Complement
- 168
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS Aldenham was a Type III Hunt-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number L22. Cammell Laird, Birkenhead laid her keel on 22 August 1940. She was launched on 27 August 1941.
Displacement was 1,050 long tons standard and 1,435 long tons at full load. She measured 85.3 m (280 ft) long with a beam of 10.2 m (33 ft). Her designed speed was 27 knots, and she carried a complement of 168. Her main battery was of 102 mm (4.0 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 1,931 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 14 December 1944, at 44°30′N 14°50′E. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 2 shaft Parsons geared turbines, 19000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × QF 4 in Mark XVI guns on twin mounts Mk. XIX
- 4 × QF 2 pdr Mk. VIII on quad mount MK.VII
- 2 × 20 mm Oerlikons on single mounts P Mk. III
- 2 × 21 in torpedo tubes
- 110 depth charges, 4 throwers, 3 racks
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Aldenham on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 412 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons