HMS Hambledon (L37)
Service
- as HMS Hambledon8 June 1940 — December 19451,912 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Hambledon
- Pennant / hull number
- L37
- Namesake
- A fox hunt in Hampshire, England
- Builder
- Swan Hunter, Newcastle upon Tyne or Wallsend
- Ordered
- 21 March 1939
- Laid down
- 9 June 1939
- Launched
- 12 December 1939
- Commissioned
- 8 June 1940
- Decommissioned
- December 1945
- Fate
- Scrapped 1957 (1957)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,000 long tons (1,016 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,340 long tons (1,362 t)
- Length
- 85.34 m (280 ft)
- Beam
- 8.84 m (29 ft)
- Draught
- 3.05 m (10 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 Hambledon was a Hunt-class destroyer destroyer in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number L37. She was named for A fox hunt in Hampshire. Her keel was laid at Swan Hunter, Newcastle upon Tyne or Wallsend on 9 June 1939. Launched on 12 December 1939, she entered service on 8 June 1940.
Her class ran to 24 ships.
She displaced 1,000 long tons standard and 1,340 long tons at full load. She measured 85.3 m (280 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 1,912 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in December 1945.
She was broken up for scrap in 1957.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Two x Admiralty 3 drum boilers
- Two 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
- HMS Blankney
- HMS Bleasdale
- HMS Derwent (L83)
- HMS Eridge (L68)
- HMS Exmoor (L08)
- HMS Exmoor (L61)
- HMS Goathland
- HMS Haydon
- HMS Heythrop (L85)
- HMS Hursley
- HMS Hurworth (L28)
- HMS Lauderdale
- HMS Liddesdale
- HMS Melbreak
- HMS Penylan
- HMS Puckeridge
- HMS Quorn (L66)
- HMS Rockwood
- HMS Stevenstone
- HMS Tanatside
- HMS Tynedale
- HMS Wensleydale
- ORP Ślązak (L26)
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Hambledon (L37) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 22844 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons