HMS Gipsy (H63)
Service
- as Gipsy? — 21 November 193981 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Gipsy
- Pennant / hull number
- H63
- Builder
- Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan
- Ordered
- 5 March 1934
- Laid down
- 5 September 1934
- Launched
- 7 November 1935
- Fate
- Mined, 21 November 1939
By mine (1939) - Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,350 long tons (1,372 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,883 long tons (1,913 t)
- Length
- 98.45 m (323 ft)
- Beam
- 10.06 m (33 ft)
- Draught
- 3.66 m (12 ft)
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Range
- 5,530 nmi (10,242 km)
- Complement
- 137
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
HMS Gipsy was a G-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number H63. Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan laid her keel on 5 September 1934. She was launched on 7 November 1935.
Her class ran to eleven ships.
She displaced 1,350 long tons standard and 1,883 long tons at full load. She measured 98.5 m (323 ft) long with a beam of 10.1 m (33 ft). Her designed speed was 36 knots, and she carried a complement of 137.
Her main battery was four 119 mm (4.7 in) guns. Her machinery developed 34,000 shp through two shafts.
She was in commission for 81 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 21 November 1939 by mine, at 51°57′N 1°19′E. The wreck survives.
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
- 3 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 34000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × single 4.7 in (120 mm) guns
- 2 × quadruple 0.5 in machine guns
- 2 × quadruple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 20 × depth charges, 1 rail and 2 throwers
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Gipsy (H63) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 13465 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons