HMS Chequers
Service
- as HMS Chequers28 September 1945 — 23 July 1966
- Name
- HMS Chequers
- Pennant / hull number
- R61
- Builder
- Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, (Greenock, Scotland)
- Ordered
- 24 July 1942
- Laid down
- 4 May 1943
- Launched
- 30 October 1944
- Commissioned
- 28 September 1945
- Fate
- Sold to John Cashmore Ltd on 23 July 1966 (1966)
- Status
- Unknown
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,710 long tons (1,737 t)
- Length
- 110.57 m (362.8 ft)
- Beam
- 10.87 m (35.7 ft)
- Draught
- 3.05 m (10 ft)
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Complement
- 186
- Main gun
- 114 mm (4.5 in)
HMS Chequers was a C-class destroyer (1943) destroyer, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number R61. Her keel was laid at Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, (Greenock, Scotland) on 4 May 1943. Launched on 30 October 1944, she entered service on 28 September 1945.
Her class ran to 40 ships. The class followed the W and Z-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Weapon-class destroyer.
She displaced 1,710 long tons. She measured 110.6 m (363 ft) long with a beam of 10.9 m (36 ft). Her designed speed was 36 knots, and she carried a complement of 186. Her main battery was of 114 mm (4.5 in) calibre.
Her machinery developed 40,000 hp through two shafts.
She was transferred on 23 July 1966.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Parsons geared turbines, 2 shafts; 2 Admiralty 3-drum type boilers
- Power
- 40000 hp
- Armament
- 4 x QF 4.5 in L/45 guns Mark IV on mounts CP Mk.V
- 4 x 20 mm anti-aircraft weapons
- 4 x 21 inch (533 mm) torpedoes
- 2 x Squid anti-submarine mortars (after 1954)
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 Carron (R30)
- HMS Carysfort (R25)
- HMS Cassandra (R62)
- HMS Cavalier
- HMS Cavendish (R15)
- HMS Ceres (D59)
- HMS Chaplet
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Chequers on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 7976 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons