HMS Punjabi
Service
- as Punjabi29 March 1939 — 1 May 1942973 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Punjabi
- Pennant / hull number
- L21
- Namesake
- Punjabis
- Builder
- Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering, Greenock
- Ordered
- 19 June 1936
- Laid down
- 1 October 1936
- Launched
- 18 December 1937
- Commissioned
- 29 March 1939
- Fate
- Sunk in a collision with HMS King George V (41), 1 May 1942
By collision (1942) - Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,891 long tons (1,921 t)
- Length
- 114.91 m (377 ft) OA
- Beam
- 10.97 m (36 ft)
- Draught
- 3.35 m (11 ft)
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Range
- 5,700 nmi (10,556 km)
- Complement
- 190
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
HMS Punjabi was a Tribal-class destroyer in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number L21. The ship was named after Punjabis. Her keel was laid at Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering, Greenock on 1 October 1936. Launched on 18 December 1937, she entered service on 29 March 1939.
24 ships of the class were built. The class followed the I-class destroyer and was succeeded by the J class.
She displaced 1,891 long tons. She measured 114.9 m (377 ft) long with a beam of 11.0 m (36 ft). Her designed speed was 36 knots, and she carried a complement of 190.
Her main battery was eight 119 mm (4.7 in) guns in four twin mountings. Her machinery developed 44,000 shp.
She was in commission for 973 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 1 May 1942 by collision, at 66°00′N 8°00′W. 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 × geared steam turbines
- Power
- 3 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 44000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × twin 4.7 in (120 mm) guns
- 1 × quadruple 2 pdr (40 mm) AA guns
- 2 × quadruple 0.5 in (12.7 mm) anti-aircraft machineguns
- 1 × quadruple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 1 × depth charge rack, 2 × throwers, 20 × depth charges
Sister ships
- HMAS Arunta (I30)
- HMAS Bataan
- HMAS Warramunga (I44)
- HMCS Athabaskan (G07)
- HMCS Haida
- HMCS Huron (G24)
- HMCS Iroquois (G89)
- HMCS Nootka (R96)
- HMS Afridi (F07)
- HMS Ashanti (F51)
- HMS Bedouin
- HMS Cossack (F03)
- HMS Eskimo (F75)
- HMS Gurkha (F20)
- HMS Maori (F24)
- HMS Mashona
- HMS Matabele
- HMS Mohawk (F31)
- HMS Nubian (F36)
- HMS Sikh (F82)
- HMS Somali
- HMS Tartar (F43)
- HMS Zulu (F18)
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Punjabi on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//20/media-20928/large.jpg This photograph FL 25824 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons