Royal Navy — Destroyer
L09
HMS Easton
Type III Hunt-class destroyer
Service
- as Easton7 December 1942 — January 19531,000 days of the war
Type III Hunt-class destroyer
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Easton
- Pennant / hull number
- L09
- Builder
- J Samuel White, Cowes
- Ordered
- 28 July 1940
- Laid down
- 25 March 1941
- Launched
- 11 July 1942
- Commissioned
- 7 December 1942
- Fate
- Scrapped January 1953 (1953)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,050 long tons (1,067 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,490 long tons (1,514 t)
- Length
- 85.34 m (280 ft) OA
- Beam
- 9.45 m (31 ft)
- Draught
- 2.13 m (7 ft)
- Speed
- 27 knots (50 km/h, 31.1 mph)
- Range
- 3,700 nmi (6,852 km)
- Complement
- 168
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS Easton was a Type III Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number L09. J Samuel White, Cowes laid her keel on 25 March 1941. Launched on 11 July 1942, she entered service on 7 December 1942.
She displaced 1,050 long tons standard and 1,490 long tons at full load. She measured 85.3 m (280 ft) long with a beam of 9.4 m (31 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 1,000 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in January 1953.
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 guns on twin mounts Mk. XIX
- 4 × QF 2 pdr Mk. VIII (1 × quad mount)
- 3 × 20 mm Oerlikons
- 2 × 21 in torpedo tubes
- 70 depth charges, 4 throwers, 2 racks
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Easton on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//7/media-7350/large.jpg This photograph FL 11603 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons