HMS Zambesi
Service
- as HMS Zambesi18 July 1944 — 12 February 1959411 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Zambesi
- Pennant / hull number
- R66
- Namesake
- Zambesi
- Builder
- Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
- Ordered
- 12 February 1942
- Laid down
- 21 December 1942
- Launched
- 21 November 1943
- Commissioned
- 18 July 1944
- Fate
- Arrived John Cashmore Ltd, Newport for breaking up 12 February 1959 (1959)
- Status
- Unknown
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,710 long tons (1,737 t)
- Length
- 110.34 m (362 ft)
- Beam
- 10.67 m (35 ft)
- Draught
- 3.05 m (10 ft)
- Speed
- 37 knots (68.5 km/h, 42.6 mph)
- Complement
- 185
- Main gun
- 114 mm (4.5 in)
HMS Zambesi was a Z-class destroyer in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number R66. The ship was named after Zambesi. Cammell Laird, Birkenhead laid her keel on 21 December 1942. Launched on 21 November 1943, she entered service on 18 July 1944.
Her class ran to seven ships. The class followed the U and V-class destroyer and was succeeded by the C-class destroyer (1943).
She displaced 1,710 long tons. She measured 110.3 m (362 ft) long with a beam of 10.7 m (35 ft). Her designed speed was 37 knots, and she carried a complement of 185. Her main battery was of 114 mm (4.5 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 411 days of the Second World War.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Twin steam turbines
- Armament
- 4 × QF 4.5 in guns
- 5 × 40 mm guns
- 8 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Zambesi on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Stewart Bale Ltd, Liverpool — This photograph FL 9776 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons