Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
Royal Navy — Destroyer H49

HMCS Margaree (H49)

D-class destroyer

HMCS Margaree (H49)
Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 22639 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate — H49 Royal Navy destroyer HMS Diana at a buoy. She was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy as HMCS Margaree in September 1940, and was accidentally sunk in a collision one month later.

Service

  1. Royal Navy as Diana? — 6 September 1940371 days of the war
  2. Royal Canadian Navy as Margaree6 September 1940 — 22 October 194046 days of the war
D-class destroyer Particulars
Name
HMCS Margaree
Pennant / hull number
H49
Builder
Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Hebburn-on-Tyne
Ordered
2 February 1931
Laid down
12 June 1931
Launched
16 June 1932
Commissioned
6 September 1940
Fate
Sunk following collision, 22 October 1940
By collision (1940)
Status
Wreck

Specifications

Displacement, standard
1,375 long tons (1,397 t)
Length
100.28 m (329 ft) OA
Beam
10.06 m (33 ft)
Draught
3.66 m (12 ft)
Speed
36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
Range
5,870 nmi (10,871 km)
Complement
145
Main gun
120 mm (4.7 in)

HMCS Margaree was a D-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number H49. Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Hebburn-on-Tyne laid her keel on 12 June 1931. She entered service on 6 September 1940, having been launched on 16 June 1932.

Displacement was 1,375 long tons. She measured 100.3 m (329 ft) long with a beam of 10.1 m (33 ft). Her designed speed was 36 knots, and she carried a complement of 145.

Her main battery was four 119 mm (4.7 in) guns. Her machinery developed 36,000 shp.

She served with the Royal Navy as Diana until 6 September 1940. She then passed to the Royal Canadian Navy, serving as Margaree from 6 September 1940. She was in commission for 417 days of the Second World War.

She was sunk on 22 October 1940 by collision. The wreck survives.

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

Armament and machinery

Armament and machinery
Propulsion
  • 2 × shafts; 2 × geared steam turbines
Power
  • 3 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
  • 36000 shp
Armament
  • 4 × single 4.7 in (120 mm) guns
  • 1 × single 12 pdr (3 in (76.2 mm)) AA gun
  • 2 × single 2 pdr (40 mm) AA guns
  • 2 × quadruple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
  • 2 × throwers, 1 × rail for 20 depth charges

Sister ships

Sources

  • Facts harvested from HMCS Margaree (H49) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
  • Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 22639 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons