HMS Brocklesby (L42)
Type I Hunt-class destroyer
Service
- as HMS Brocklesby9 April 1941 — 19681,607 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Brocklesby
- Pennant / hull number
- L42
- Builder
- Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
- Laid down
- 18 November 1939
- Launched
- 30 September 1940
- Commissioned
- 9 April 1941
- Fate
- Scrapped at Faslane, 1968 (1968)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,000 long tons (1,016 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,360 long tons (1,382 t)
- Length
- 80.47 m (264 ft) OA
- Beam
- 8.84 m (29 ft)
- Draught
- 2.13 m (7 ft)
- Speed
- 27.5 knots (50.9 km/h, 31.6 mph)
- Complement
- 146
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS Brocklesby was a Type I Hunt-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number L42. Her keel was laid at Cammell Laird, Birkenhead on 18 November 1939. Launched on 30 September 1940, she entered service on 9 April 1941.
Displacement was 1,000 long tons standard and 1,360 long tons at full load. She measured 80.5 m (264 ft) long with a beam of 8.8 m (29 ft). Her designed speed was 27.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 146. Her main battery was of 102 mm (4.0 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 1,607 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in 1968.
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 pdr Mk. VIII on quad mount
- 2 × 20 mm Oerlikons on single mounts
- 40 × depth charges
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Brocklesby (L42) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//18/media-18655/large.jpg This photograph FL 3059 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons