HMS Abercrombie (F109)
Service
- as HMS Abercrombie5 May 1943 — 24 December 1954851 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Abercrombie
- Pennant / hull number
- F109
- Builder
- Vickers-Armstrongs, Newcastle upon Tyne
- Ordered
- 4 April 1941
- Laid down
- 26 April 1941
- Launched
- 31 March 1942
- Commissioned
- 5 May 1943
- Fate
- Scrapped at Barrow 24 December 1954 (1954)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 7,850 long tons (7,976 t)
- Length
- 113.69 m (373 ft) OA
- Beam
- 27.13 m (89 ft)
- Draught
- 3.35 m (11 ft)
- Speed
- 12.5 knots (23.2 km/h, 14.4 mph)
- Complement
- 350
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS Abercrombie was a Roberts class monitor, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number F109. Her keel was laid at Vickers-Armstrongs, Newcastle upon Tyne on 26 April 1941. Launched on 31 March 1942, she entered service on 5 May 1943.
She was one of two ships of her class. The class followed the Erebus-class monitor.
She displaced 7,850 long tons. She measured 113.7 m (373 ft) long with a beam of 27.1 m (89 ft). Her designed speed was 12.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 350.
Her main battery was eight 102 mm (4 in) guns. Her machinery developed 4,800 shp.
She was in commission for 851 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap on 24 December 1954.
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 × Parsons steam turbines
- 2 × boilers
- 2 × shafts
- Power
- 4800 shp
- Armament
- 2 × 15-inch/42 Mk 1 guns (1x2)
- 8 × 4 in AA guns (4x2)
- 16 × 2-pounder "pom-pom"s (1x8, 2x4)
- 20 × 20 mm Oerlikon guns
- Armour
- Turret: 13 in
- Barbette: 8 in
- Belt: 4 - 5 in
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Abercrombie (F109) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 10 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons