HMS Liddesdale
Service
- as Liddesdale28 February 1941 — 19481,647 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Liddesdale
- Pennant / hull number
- L100
- Builder
- Vickers-Armstrongs (Newcastle-on-Tyne, U.K.): Parsons
- Ordered
- 4 September 1939
- Laid down
- 20 November 1939
- Launched
- 19 August 1940
- Commissioned
- 28 February 1941
- Fate
- Scrapped in 1948 at Gateshead (1948)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,000 long tons (1,016 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,340 long tons (1,362 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 Liddesdale was a Hunt-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number L100. Her keel was laid at Vickers-Armstrongs (Newcastle-on-Tyne, U.K.): Parsons on 20 November 1939. She entered service on 28 February 1941, having been launched on 19 August 1940.
Her class ran to 24 ships.
Displacement was 1,000 long tons standard and 1,340 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 was in commission for 1,647 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in 1948.
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
- HMS Blankney
- HMS Bleasdale
- HMS Derwent (L83)
- HMS Eridge (L68)
- HMS Exmoor (L08)
- HMS Exmoor (L61)
- HMS Goathland
- HMS Hambledon (L37)
- HMS Haydon
- HMS Heythrop (L85)
- HMS Hursley
- HMS Hurworth (L28)
- HMS Lauderdale
- HMS Melbreak
- HMS Penylan
- HMS Puckeridge
- HMS Quorn (L66)
- HMS Rockwood
- HMS Stevenstone
- HMS Tanatside
- HMS Tynedale
- HMS Wensleydale
- ORP Ślązak (L26)
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Liddesdale on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 12044 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons