HMS Inconstant (H49)
Service
- as Inconstant24 January 1942 — 19461,317 days of the war
- as Muavenet9 March 1946 — 1960
- Name
- HMS Inconstant
- Pennant / hull number
- H49
- Builder
- Vickers-Armstrongs
- Laid down
- 24 May 1939
- Launched
- 24 February 1941
- Commissioned
- 24 January 1942
- Decommissioned
- 1946
- Fate
- Scrapped, 1960 (1960)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,360 long tons (1,382 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,880 long tons (1,910 t)
- Length
- 98.45 m (323 ft) OA
- Beam
- 10.06 m (33 ft)
- Draught
- 3.66 m (12 ft)
- Speed
- 35.5 knots (65.7 km/h, 40.9 mph)
- Range
- 5,500 nmi (10,186 km)
- Complement
- 145
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
HMS Inconstant was a I-class destroyer, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number H49. Vickers-Armstrongs laid her keel on 24 May 1939. Launched on 24 February 1941, she entered service on 24 January 1942.
Her class ran to eleven ships. The class followed the G and H-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Tribal-class destroyer (1936).
She displaced 1,360 long tons standard and 1,880 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 35.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 145.
Her main battery was four 119 mm (4.7 in) guns. 34,000 shp drove two shafts.
She served with the Royal Navy as Inconstant until 1946. She then passed to the Turkish Navy, serving as Muavenet from 9 March 1946. She was in commission for 1,317 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in 1946.
She was broken up for scrap in 1960.
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
- 1 × single 12 pdr (3 in) AA gun
- 4 × single 20 mm AA guns
- 1 × quadruple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 1 × rack and 2 throwers for 35 depth charges
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Inconstant (H49) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 4000 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons