Greek destroyer Pindos
Type III Hunt-class destroyer
Service
- as Bolebroke2,193 days of the war
- as Pindos - ΒΠ Πίνδος27 June 1942 — 19591,163 days of the war
- Name
- Pindos
- Pennant / hull number
- L65
- Builder
- Swan Hunter, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
- Laid down
- 3 April 1941
- Launched
- 5 November 1941
- Commissioned
- 27 June 1942
- Decommissioned
- 1959
- Fate
- Returned to UK and sold for scrap in 1960 (1960)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,050 long tons (1,067 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,490 long tons (1,514 t)
- Length
- 85.3 m (279.9 ft)
- Beam
- 11.4 m (37.4 ft)
- Draught
- 2.4 m (7.9 ft)
- Speed
- 26 knots (48.2 km/h, 29.9 mph)
- Range
- 2,350 nmi (4,352 km)
- Complement
- 170
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
Pindos was a Type III Hunt-class destroyer, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number L65. Her keel was laid at Swan Hunter, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom on 3 April 1941. Launched on 5 November 1941, she entered service on 27 June 1942.
Displacement was 1,050 long tons standard and 1,490 long tons at full load. She measured 85.3 m (280 ft) long with a beam of 11.4 m (37 ft). Her designed speed was 26 knots, and she carried a complement of 170.
Her main battery was four 102 mm (4 in) guns.
She served with the Royal Navy as Bolebroke. She then passed to the Hellenic Navy, serving as Pindos - ΒΠ Πίνδος from 27 June 1942. She was in commission for 3,356 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in 1959.
She was broken up for scrap in 1960.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Boilers: 2 Admiralty 3 drum boilers, Engines: 2 shaft Parsons turbine, Shafts: 2 (twin screw ship), Power: 19,000 shp, (14.2 MW)
- Armament
- 4 × 4 in (2 × 2) guns, one 4 × 40 mm A/A QF 2-pounder pompom gun, 3 × 20 mm A/A, 2 × 21-inch (533 mm) T/T, one depth charge track
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Greek destroyer Pindos on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Tyne built ships — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons