HMS Carron (R30)
Service
- as Carron28 July 1944 — 5 April 1963401 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Carron
- Pennant / hull number
- R30
- Builder
- Scotts, Greenock
- Ordered
- 24 March 1942
- Laid down
- 26 November 1942
- Launched
- 28 March 1944
- Commissioned
- 28 July 1944
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 10 March 1967 (1967)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,710 long tons (1,737 t)
- Length
- 110.34 m (362 ft) OA
- Beam
- 10.67 m (35 ft)
- Draught
- 4.27 m (14 ft)
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Range
- 4,675 nmi (8,658 km)
- Complement
- 186
- Main gun
- 114 mm (4.5 in)
HMS Carron was a C-class destroyer (1943) destroyer of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number R30. Her keel was laid at Scotts, Greenock on 26 November 1942. Launched on 28 March 1944, she entered service on 28 July 1944.
40 ships of the class were built. The class followed the W and Z-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Weapon-class destroyer.
Displacement was 1,710 long tons. She measured 110.3 m (362 ft) long with a beam of 10.7 m (35 ft). Her designed speed was 36 knots, and she carried a complement of 186.
Her main battery was four 114 mm (4.5 in) guns. 40,000 shp drove two shafts.
She was in commission for 401 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap on 10 March 1967.
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
- 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 40000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × single 4.5 in DP guns
- 1 × twin 40 mm AA gun
- 2 × twin and 2 × single 20 mm AA guns
- 2 × quadruple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 4 throwers and 2 racks for 108 depth charges
Sister ships
- HMCS Assiniboine (I18)
- HMCS Crescent
- HMCS Fraser (H48)
- HMCS Ottawa (H60)
- HMCS Restigouche (H00)
- HMCS St. Laurent (H83)
- HMS Caesar (R07)
- HMS Cairo
- HMS Calcutta (D82)
- HMS Caledon (D53)
- HMS Calypso (D61)
- HMS Cambrian (R85)
- HMS Capetown
- HMS Caprice
- HMS Caradoc (D60)
- HMS Cardiff (D58)
- HMS Carlisle (D67)
- HMS Carysfort (R25)
- HMS Cassandra (R62)
- HMS Cavalier
- HMS Cavendish (R15)
- HMS Ceres (D59)
- HMS Chaplet
- HMS Charity (R29)
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Carron (R30) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 7560 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons