Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
Hellenic Navy — Destroyer L95

HMS Lauderdale

Hunt-class destroyer

HMS Lauderdale
Claude Henry Parnall — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//18/media-18061/large.jpg This photograph A 16764 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate — L95 The Royal Navy during the Second World War Four British Hunt class destroyers docked in Algiers Harbour. Left to right: HMS Whaddon , HMS Lauderdale , HMS Bicester and HMS Zetland . The bridge structure of HMS Lauderdale is decorated with a prominent V sign.

Service

  1. Royal Navy as HMS LauderdaleAugust 1942 — 19461,128 days of the war
  2. Hellenic Navy as Aigaion? — December 19592,193 days of the war
Hunt-class destroyer Particulars
Name
HMS Lauderdale
Pennant / hull number
L95
Builder
John Isaac Thornycroft
Ordered
4 September 1939
Laid down
12 December 1939
Launched
5 August 1941
Commissioned
August 1942
Fate
Returned to the Royal Navy December 1959
Scrapped in Greece 1960 (1959)
Status
Scrapped

Specifications

Displacement, standard
1,050 long tons (1,067 t)
Displacement, full load
1,435 long tons (1,458 t)
Length
85.3 m (279.9 ft) OA
Beam
10.16 m (33.3 ft)
Draught
3.51 m (11.5 ft)
Speed
27 knots (50 km/h, 31.1 mph)
Range
2,350 nmi (4,352 km)
Complement
168
Main gun
102 mm (4 in)

HMS Lauderdale was a Hunt-class destroyer in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number L95. John Isaac Thornycroft laid her keel on 12 December 1939. Launched on 5 August 1941, she entered service in August 1942.

Her class ran to 24 ships.

She displaced 1,050 long tons standard and 1,435 long tons at full load. She measured 85.3 m (280 ft) long with a beam of 10.2 m (33 ft). Her designed speed was 27 knots, and she carried a complement of 168. Her main battery was of 102 mm (4.0 in) calibre.

She served with the Royal Navy as HMS Lauderdale until 1946. She then passed to the Hellenic Navy, serving as Aigaion. She was in commission for 3,321 days of the Second World War.

She was broken up for scrap in December 1959.

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 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
  • 2 shaft Parsons geared turbines, 19,000 shp
Armament
  • 4 × QF 4 in Mark XVI guns on twin mounts Mk. XIX
  • 4 × QF 2 pdr Mk. VIII on quad mount MK.VII
  • 2 × 20 mm Oerlikons on single mounts P Mk. III
  • 2 × 21 in torpedo tubes
  • 110 depth charges, 4 throwers, 3 racks

Sister ships

Sources

  • Facts harvested from HMS Lauderdale on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
  • Photograph: Claude Henry Parnall — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//18/media-18061/large.jpg This photograph A 16764 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons