HMS Beagle (H30)
Service
- as Beagle? — 24 May 19452,092 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Beagle
- Pennant / hull number
- H30
- Namesake
- Beagle
- Builder
- John Brown & Company, Clydebank
- Ordered
- 4 March 1929
- Laid down
- 11 October 1929
- Launched
- 26 September 1930
- Decommissioned
- 24 May 1945
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 15 January 1946 (1946)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,360 long tons (1,382 t)
- Length
- 98.45 m (323 ft) OA
- Beam
- 9.75 m (32 ft)
- Draught
- 3.66 m (12 ft)
- Speed
- 35 knots (64.8 km/h, 40.3 mph)
- Range
- 4,800 nmi (8,890 km)
- Complement
- 142
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
HMS Beagle was a B-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number H30. She was named for Beagle. John Brown & Company, Clydebank laid her keel on 11 October 1929. She was launched on 26 September 1930.
She was one of nine ships of her class. The class followed the HMS Ambuscade (D38) and HMS Amazon (D39) and was succeeded by the C and D-class destroyer.
She displaced 1,360 long tons. She measured 98.5 m (323 ft) long with a beam of 9.8 m (32 ft). Her designed speed was 35 knots, and she carried a complement of 142.
Her main battery was four 119 mm (4.7 in) guns. Her machinery developed 34,000 shp.
She was in commission for 2,092 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 24 May 1945.
She was broken up for scrap on 15 January 1946.
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 × shafts; 2 × geared steam turbines
- Power
- 3 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 34000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × single 4.7 in (120 mm) guns
- 2 × single 2 pdr (40 mm) AA guns
- 2 × quadruple 21 in torpedo tubes
- 1 × depth charge rail and 2 throwers; 20 × depth charges
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Beagle (H30) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: John Alfred Hampton — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//36/media-36037/large.jpg This photograph A 23872 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons