HMAS Norman (G49)

N-class destroyer

Service

Royal Australian Navy as Norman29 September 1941 — October 19451,435 days of the war

N-class destroyer Particulars

Name: HMAS Norman
Pennant / hull number: G49
Builder: John I. Thornycroft & Company
Laid down: 27 July 1939
Launched: 30 October 1940
Commissioned: 29 September 1941
Decommissioned: October 1945
Fate: Broken up for scrap
Status: Scrapped

Specifications

Displacement, standard: 1,773 long tons (1,801 t)
Displacement, full load: 2,384 long tons (2,422 t)
Length: 108.51 m (356 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: 5,500 nmi (10,186 km)
Complement: 183
Main gun: 120 mm (4.7 in)

HMAS Norman was a N-class destroyer of the Royal Australian Navy. She carried the pennant number G49. John I. Thornycroft & Company laid her keel on 27 July 1939. Launched on 30 October 1940, she entered service on 29 September 1941.

She displaced 1,773 long tons standard and 2,384 long tons at full load. She measured 108.5 m (356 ft) long with a beam of 10.7 m (35 ft). Her designed speed was 36 knots, and she carried a complement of 183. Her main battery was of 120 mm (4.7 in) calibre.

40,000 shp drove two shafts.

She was in commission for 1,435 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in October 1945.

She was broken up for scrap.

Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.

Armament and machinery

Propulsion: 2 shafts; 2 steam turbines
Power: 40000 shp
2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
Armament: 3 × twin QF 4.7-inch (120 mm) Mk XII guns
1 × single QF 4-inch Mk V (102 mm) AA gun
4 × single 20 mm Oerlikon AA guns
2 × twin QF 0.5-inch (12.7 mm) Mk III machineguns
1 × quintuple 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
45 × depth charges, 1 × rack, 2 × throwers

Sister ships

Sources

Facts harvested from HMAS Norman (G49) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: Unknown author — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons