HMS Oakley (L98)
Type II Hunt-class destroyer
Service
- as HMS Oakley7 May 1942 — 11 November 19571,214 days of the war
- as Gneisenau18 October 1958 — 1972
- Name
- HMS Oakley
- Pennant / hull number
- L98
- Builder
- Yarrow & Co Ltd, Scotstoun
- Ordered
- 20 December 1939
- Laid down
- 19 August 1940
- Launched
- 15 January 1942
- Commissioned
- 7 May 1942
- Fate
- Scrapped 1972 (1972)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,050 long tons (1,067 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,490 long tons (1,514 t)
- Length
- 85.34 m (280 ft) OA
- Beam
- 9.45 m (31 ft)
- Draught
- 2.13 m (7 ft)
- Speed
- 27 knots (50 km/h, 31.1 mph)
- Range
- 3,700 nmi (6,852 km)
- Complement
- 168
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS Oakley was a Type II Hunt-class destroyer, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number L98. Yarrow & Co Ltd, Scotstoun laid her keel on 19 August 1940. She entered service on 7 May 1942, having been launched on 15 January 1942.
Displacement was 1,050 long tons standard and 1,490 long tons at full load. She measured 85.3 m (280 ft) long with a beam of 9.4 m (31 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 Oakley until 11 November 1957. She then passed to the Kriegsmarine, serving as Gneisenau from 18 October 1958. She was in commission for 1,214 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in 1972.
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, 19000 shp
- Armament
- 6 × QF 4 in Mark XVI guns on twin mounts Mk. XIX
- 4 × QF 2 pdr Mk. VIII (1 × quad mount)
- 2 × 20 mm Oerlikons
- 110 depth charges
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Oakley (L98) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//18/media-18476/large.jpg This photograph FL 804 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons