Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
Royal Navy — Destroyer D10

HMS Intrepid (D10)

I-class destroyer

HMS Intrepid (D10)
Claude Henry Parnall — This photograph A 7871 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 4700-01) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate — D10 IWM caption : HMS INTREPID , one of the destroyers acting as a screen when the Home Fleet sailed north to cover a convoy to Russia

Service

  1. Royal Navy as Intrepid? — 27 September 19431,487 days of the war
I-class destroyer Particulars
Name
HMS Intrepid
Pennant / hull number
D10
Builder
J. Samuel White, Cowes, Isle of Wight
Laid down
13 January 1936
Launched
17 December 1936
Fate
Sunk by air attack, 27 September 1943
By aircraft (1943)
Status
Wreck

Specifications

Displacement, standard
1,370 long tons (1,392 t)
Displacement, full load
1,888 long tons (1,918 t)
Length
98.45 m (323 ft)
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 Intrepid was a I-class destroyer in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number D10. J. Samuel White, Cowes, Isle of Wight laid her keel on 13 January 1936. She was launched on 17 December 1936.

She was one of eleven ships of her class. The class followed the G and H-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Tribal-class destroyer (1936).

Displacement was 1,370 long tons standard and 1,888 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 was in commission for 1,487 days of the Second World War.

She was sunk on 27 September 1943 by aircraft, at 37°07′N 26°51′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 × quintuple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
  • 1 × rack and 2 throwers for 16 depth charges
  • 60 mines

Sister ships

Sources

  • Facts harvested from HMS Intrepid (D10) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
  • Photograph: Claude Henry Parnall — This photograph A 7871 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 4700-01) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons