Royal Navy — Destroyer
R19
HMS Zephyr (R19)
Service
- as HMS Zephyr6 September 1944 — 2 July 1958361 days of the war
Z-class destroyer
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Zephyr
- Pennant / hull number
- R19
- Builder
- Vickers-Armstrongs, High Walker
- Ordered
- 12 February 1942
- Laid down
- 13 July 1942
- Launched
- 15 July 1943
- Commissioned
- 6 September 1944
- Fate
- Arrived in Dunston for breaking up 2 July 1958 (1958)
- 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
- 113 mm (4.4 in)
HMS Zephyr was a Z-class destroyer in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number R19. Vickers-Armstrongs, High Walker laid her keel on 13 July 1942. She entered service on 6 September 1944, having been launched on 15 July 1943.
Her class ran to seven ships. The class followed the U and V-class destroyer and was succeeded by the C-class destroyer (1943).
Displacement was 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 113 mm (4.4 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 361 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-inch (113 mm) guns
- 5 × 40 mm Bofors guns
- 8 × 21 in torpedo tubes
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Zephyr (R19) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 5781 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons