HMS Panther (G41)
Service
- as HMS Panther12 December 1941 — 9 October 1943666 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Panther
- Pennant / hull number
- G41
- Builder
- Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company
- Ordered
- 20 October 1939
- Laid down
- 15 July 1940
- Launched
- 28 May 1941
- Commissioned
- 12 December 1941
- Fate
- Sunk by Aerial attack, 9 October 1943 (1943)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,640 long tons (1,666 t)
- Length
- 105.16 m (345 ft) OA
- Beam
- 10.67 m (35 ft)
- Draught
- 3.66 m (12 ft)
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Range
- 3,850 nmi (7,130 km)
- Complement
- 176
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS Panther was a P-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number G41. Her keel was laid at Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company on 15 July 1940. Launched on 28 May 1941, she entered service on 12 December 1941.
She was one of eight ships of her class. The class followed the L and M-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Q and R-class destroyer.
Displacement was 1,640 long tons. She measured 105.2 m (345 ft) long with a beam of 10.7 m (35 ft). Her designed speed was 36 knots, and she carried a complement of 176. Her main battery was of 102 mm (4.0 in) calibre.
40,000 shp drove two shafts.
She was in commission for 666 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 9 October 1943, at 35°48′N 27°36′E. The wreck survives.
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 shafts; 2 × steam turbines
- Power
- 40000 shp
- 2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- Armament
- 5 × single QF 4 in Mk.V (102 mm)
- 1 × quadruple QF 2-pdr (40 mm) Mk.VIII
- 4 × single QF 20 mm Oerlikon
- 1 × quadruple 21 in torpedo tubes
- 4 × throwers and 2 × racks for 70 depth charges
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Panther (G41) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Claude Henry Parnall — This photograph A 7315 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 4700-01) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons