Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
Royal Canadian Navy — Destroyer H83

HMCS St. Laurent (H83)

C-class destroyer

HMCS St. Laurent (H83)
Photographer not identified — Canadian Navy Heritage website. Image Negative Number IKMD-04199 . Credit Ken Macpherson / Naval Museum of Alberta Downloaded from http://www.navy.gc.ca/project_pride/photo_archive/photo_archive_description_page_e.asp?ImgNegNum=IKMD-04199 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate — H83 Photograph of Canadian destroyer HMCS St. Laurent (H83) (originally HMS Cygnet).

Service

  1. Royal Navy as Cygnet? — 30 September 1936
  2. Royal Canadian Navy as St. Laurent17 February 1937 — 10 October 19452,193 days of the war
C-class destroyer Particulars
Name
HMCS St. Laurent
Pennant / hull number
H83
Namesake
Cygnet
Builder
Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow
Ordered
9 July 1930
Laid down
1 December 1930
Launched
29 September 1931
Commissioned
17 February 1937
Decommissioned
30 September 1936
Fate
Scrapped in 1947 (1947)
Status
Scrapped

Specifications

Displacement, standard
1,375 long tons (1,397 t)
Displacement, full load
1,865 long tons (1,895 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
5,500 nmi (10,186 km)
Complement
145

HMCS St. Laurent was a C-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number H83. The ship was named after Cygnet. Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow laid her keel on 1 December 1930. She entered service on 17 February 1937, having been launched on 29 September 1931.

40 ships of the class were built. The class followed the W and Z-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Weapon-class destroyer.

Displacement was 1,375 long tons standard and 1,865 long tons at full load. 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 machinery developed 36,000 shp.

She served with the Royal Navy as Cygnet until 30 September 1936. She then passed to the Royal Canadian Navy, serving as St. Laurent from 17 February 1937. She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 30 September 1936.

She was broken up for scrap in 1947.

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 × Parsons geared steam turbines
  • 3 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
Power
  • 36000 shp
Armament
  • 4 × 1 - QF 4.7-inch Mk IX guns
  • 1 × 1 - QF 3-inch 20 cwt anti-aircraft gun
  • 2 × 1 - QF 2-pounder Mk II AA guns
  • 2 × 4 - 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
  • 6 × depth charges, 3 chutes

Sister ships

15 more in the class

Sources

  • Facts harvested from HMCS St. Laurent (H83) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
  • Photograph: Photographer not identified — Canadian Navy Heritage website. Image Negative Number IKMD-04199 . Credit Ken Macpherson / Naval Museum of Alberta Downloaded from http://www.navy.gc.ca/project_pride/photo_archive/photo_archive_description_page_e.asp?ImgNegNum=IKMD-04199 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons