Royal Navy — Destroyer
L47
HMS Blean
Service
- as HMS Blean23 August 1942 — 11 December 1942110 days of the war
HMS Blean
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Blean
- Pennant / hull number
- L47
- Builder
- Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn-on-Tyne
- Ordered
- 28 July 1940
- Laid down
- 22 February 1941
- Launched
- 15 January 1942
- Commissioned
- 23 August 1942
- Fate
- Torpedoed on 11 December 1942
By torpedo (1942) - 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 Blean was a destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number L47. Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn-on-Tyne laid her keel on 22 February 1941. She entered service on 23 August 1942, having been launched on 15 January 1942.
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 110 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 11 December 1942 by torpedo, at 35°55′N 1°50′W. 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 on twin mounts Mk. XIX
- 4 × QF 2-pounder Mk. VIII on quad mount MK.VII
- 2 × 20 mm Oerlikons on single mounts P Mk. III
- 2 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 110 depth charges, 4 throwers, 3 racks
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Blean on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 2359 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons