HMAS Stuart (D00)
Admiralty-type (or Scott-class) destroyer leader
Service
- 21 December 1918 — May 1933
- 11 October 1933 — 27 April 19462,193 days of the war
- Name
- HMAS Stuart
- Pennant / hull number
- D00
- Namesake
- House of Stuart
- Builder
- Hawthorn Leslie and Company
- Laid down
- 18 October 1917
- Launched
- 22 August 1918
- Commissioned
- 21 December 1918
- Decommissioned
- May 1933
- Fate
- Sold for scrap
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,530 long tons (1,555 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 2,053 long tons (2,086 t)
- Length
- 101.19 m (332 ft) OA
- Beam
- 9.45 m (31 ft)
- Draught
- 3.35 m (11 ft)
- Speed
- 34 knots (63 km/h, 39.1 mph)
- Range
- 3,000 nmi (5,556 km)
- Complement
- 167
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
HMAS Stuart was a destroyer of the Admiralty-type (or Scott-class) destroyer leader in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number D00. The ship was named after House of Stuart. Her keel was laid at Hawthorn Leslie and Company on 18 October 1917. She entered service on 21 December 1918, having been launched on 22 August 1918.
She displaced 1,530 long tons standard and 2,053 long tons at full load. She measured 101.2 m (332 ft) long with a beam of 9.4 m (31 ft). Her designed speed was 34 knots, and she carried a complement of 167. Her main battery was of 120 mm (4.7 in) calibre.
She served with the Royal Navy until May 1933. She then passed to the Royal Australian Navy from 11 October 1933. She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in May 1933.
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
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 4 × Yarrow boilers, 2 × Brown-Curtis turbines, 43000 shp, 2 shafts
- Armament
- In 1933:
- 5 × BL 4.7-inch (120 mm) guns
- 1 × QF 3-inch (76 mm) AA gun
- 2 × QF 2-pounder (40 mm) AA guns (pom-poms)
- 5 × .303 inch machine guns
- 6 × 21 inch torpedo tubes (two triple mountings)
- 2 × depth charge throwers
- 4 × depth charge chutes
- See "Design and construction" section for changes during World War II
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMAS Stuart (D00) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Green, Allan C., 1878-1954, photographer. — https://find.slv.vic.gov.au/permalink/61SLV_INST/156d4cp/alma9916490323607636 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons