HMS Cleveland (L46)

Type I Hunt-class destroyer

Service

Royal Navy as HMS Cleveland? — December 19592,193 days of the war

Type I Hunt-class destroyer Particulars

Name: HMS Cleveland
Pennant / hull number: L46
Builder: Yarrow Shipbuilders, Glasgow
Ordered: 21 March 1939
Laid down: 7 July 1939
Launched: 24 April 1940
Fate: Scrapped in December 1959 (1959)
Status: Scrapped

Specifications

Displacement, standard: 1,000 long tons (1,016 t)
Displacement, full load: 1,340 long tons (1,362 t)
Length: 85 m (278.9 ft) OA
Beam: 8.8 m (28.9 ft)
Draught: 3.27 m (10.7 ft)
Speed: 27.5 knots (50.9 km/h, 31.6 mph)
Range: 3,500 nmi (6,482 km)
Complement: 146
Main gun: 102 mm (4 in)

HMS Cleveland was a Type I Hunt-class destroyer, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number L46. Her keel was laid at Yarrow Shipbuilders, Glasgow on 7 July 1939. She was launched on 24 April 1940.

Displacement was 1,000 long tons standard and 1,340 long tons at full load. She measured 85 m (279 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 2,193 days of the Second World War.

She was broken up for scrap in December 1959.

Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.

Armament and machinery

Propulsion: 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
2 shaft Parsons geared turbines, 19,000 shp
Armament: 4 × QF 4 in Mark XVI guns on twin mounts Mk. XIX
4 × QF 2-pounder (40 mm) Mk VIII AA guns on quad mount MK.VII
2 × 20-mm Oerlikon AA guns on single mounts P Mk. III
40 depth charges, 2 throwers, 1 rack

Sister ships

Sources

Facts harvested from HMS Cleveland (L46) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 1978 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons