HMS Orwell (G98)
Service
- as Orwell17 October 1942 — 19651,051 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Orwell
- Pennant / hull number
- G98
- Builder
- Thornycroft (Southampton)
- Ordered
- 3 September 1939
- Laid down
- 20 May 1940
- Launched
- 2 April 1942
- Commissioned
- 17 October 1942
- Fate
- Broken up, 1965 (1965)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications — As built
- Displacement, standard
- 1,610 long tons (1,636 t)
- Length
- 105.16 m (345 ft) OA
- Beam
- 10.67 m (35 ft)
- Draught
- 3.96 m (13 ft)
- Speed
- 37 knots (68.5 km/h, 42.6 mph)
- Range
- 3,850 nmi (7,130 km)
- Complement
- 176
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS Orwell was a O-class destroyer in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number G98. Her keel was laid at Thornycroft (Southampton) on 20 May 1940. Launched on 2 April 1942, she entered service on 17 October 1942.
She was one of eight ships of her class. The class followed the Ersatz Yorck-class battlecruiser.
Displacement was 1,610 long tons standard and 2,300 long tons at full load. She measured 105.2 m (345 ft) long with a beam of 10.7 m (35 ft). Her designed speed was 37 knots, and she carried a complement of 176. Her main battery was of 102 mm (4.0 in) calibre.
Her machinery developed 40,000 shp.
She was in commission for 1,051 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in 1965.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
This vessel is recorded in 2 configurations. Wartime refits changed armament and complement substantially, so each is kept separately rather than averaged into one set of figures. The figures above are as built.
As built
- Propulsion
- 2 × shafts; 2 × geared steam turbines
- Power
- 2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 40000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × single QF 4 in AA gun
- 1 × quad 2 pdr (40 mm) AA gun
- 4 × single 20 mm AA guns
- 2 × quadruple 21 in torpedo tubes
- 2 × depth charges throwers
- 60 × mines
As Type 16 class
- Displacement, standard
- 1,800 long tons (1,829 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 2,300 long tons (2,337 t)
- Length
- 110.34 m (362 ft) OA
- Beam
- 11.28 m (37 ft)
- Draught
- 4.27 m (14 ft)
- Speed
- 32 knots (59.3 km/h, 36.8 mph)
- Complement
- 175
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
- Propulsion
- 2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- Steam turbines, 40,000 shp
- 2 shafts
- Armament
- 1 × twin QF 4 in gun Mk XVI
- 1 × twin 40 mm Bofors gun Mk.5
- 5 × single 40 mm Bofors gun Mk.9
- 2 × Squid A/S mortar
- 1 × quad 21 in tubes for Mk.9 torpedoes
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Orwell (G98) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 17127 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons