Royal Navy — Destroyer
G87
HMS Lance (G87)
L-class destroyer
Service
- as HMS Lance13 May 1941 — 9 April 1942331 days of the war
L-class destroyer
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Lance
- Pennant / hull number
- G87
- Builder
- Yarrow Shipbuilders, Scotstoun, Glasgow
- Ordered
- 31 March 1938
- Laid down
- 1 March 1939
- Launched
- 28 November 1940
- Commissioned
- 13 May 1941
- Fate
- Damaged by bombs on 5 and 9 April 1942. Declared a constructive total loss and scrapped. (1942)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,920 long tons (1,951 t)
- Length
- 110.49 m (362.5 ft)
- Beam
- 11.19 m (36.7 ft)
- Draught
- 3.05 m (10 ft)
- Range
- 5,500 nmi (10,186 km)
- Complement
- 221
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS Lance was a L-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number G87. Her keel was laid at Yarrow Shipbuilders, Scotstoun, Glasgow on 1 March 1939. Launched on 28 November 1940, she entered service on 13 May 1941.
She displaced 1,920 long tons. She measured 110.5 m (362 ft) long with a beam of 11.2 m (37 ft). She carried a complement of 221. Her main battery was of 102 mm (4.0 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 331 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap on 9 April 1942.
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 shafts
- Two geared steam turbines
- Two drum-type boilers
- 48000 shp (35.8 MW)
- Armament
- 4 × twin QF 4 in Mk XVI guns
- 1 × quadruple QF 2 pdr Mk VIII L/39 (40 mm)
- 2 × quadruple QF 0.5 in Mk III Vickers (12.7 mm)
- 2 × quadruple 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Lance (G87) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Russell, J E (Lt), Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph A 7266 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 4700-01) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons