HMS Kelvin
Service
- as HMS Kelvin27 November 1939 — 6 April 19492,106 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Kelvin
- Pennant / hull number
- F37
- Builder
- Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company
- Laid down
- 5 October 1937
- Launched
- 19 January 1939
- Commissioned
- 27 November 1939
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 6 April 1949 (1949)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,690 long tons (1,717 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 2,330 long tons (2,367 t)
- Length
- 108.51 m (356 ft) OA
- Beam
- 10.67 m (35 ft)
- Draught
- 3.66 m (12 ft)
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Range
- 5,500 nmi (10,186 km)
- Complement
- 183
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
HMS Kelvin was a K-class destroyer in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number F37. Her keel was laid at Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company on 5 October 1937. Launched on 19 January 1939, she entered service on 27 November 1939.
15 ships of the class were built. The class followed the Soviet S-class submarine and was succeeded by the Zulu-class submarine.
Displacement was 1,690 long tons standard and 2,330 long tons at full load. She measured 108.5 m (356 ft) long with a beam of 10.7 m (35 ft). Her designed speed was 36 knots, and she carried a complement of 183. Her main battery was of 120 mm (4.7 in) calibre.
Her machinery developed 44,000 shp.
She was in commission for 2,106 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap on 6 April 1949.
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
- 44000 shp
- 2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- Armament
- 3 × twin QF 4.7-inch (120 mm) Mk XII guns
- 1 × quadruple QF 2-pounder anti-aircraft guns
- 2 × quadruple QF 0.5-inch (12.7 mm) Mk III anti-aircraft machineguns
- 2 × quintuple 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 20 × depth charges, 1 × rack, 2 × throwers
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Kelvin on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Arthur Conry (digitised and edited by Wiki-Ed ) (Original uploader was Wiki-Ed at en.wikipedia ) — From collection of Wiki-Ed's great uncle, which Wiki-Ed inherited. (Transferred from en.wikipedia ) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons