HMS Afridi (F07)
Service
- as Afridi3 May 1938 — 3 May 1940245 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Afridi
- Pennant / hull number
- F07
- Namesake
- Afridi
- Builder
- Vickers-Armstrongs, Newcastle-on-Tyne
- Ordered
- 10 March 1936
- Laid down
- 9 June 1936
- Launched
- 8 June 1937
- Commissioned
- 3 May 1938
- Fate
- Sunk by aircraft, 3 May 1940
By aircraft (1940) - Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,891 long tons (1,921 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 2,519 long tons (2,559 t)
- Length
- 114.91 m (377 ft) OA
- Beam
- 10.97 m (36 ft)
- Draught
- 3.35 m (11 ft)
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Range
- 5,700 nmi (10,556 km)
- Complement
- 190
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
HMS Afridi was a Tribal-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number F07. The ship was named after Afridi. Her keel was laid at Vickers-Armstrongs, Newcastle-on-Tyne on 9 June 1936. Launched on 8 June 1937, she entered service on 3 May 1938.
Her class ran to 24 ships. The class followed the I-class destroyer and was succeeded by the J class.
She displaced 1,891 long tons standard and 2,519 long tons at full load. She measured 114.9 m (377 ft) long with a beam of 11.0 m (36 ft). Her designed speed was 36 knots, and she carried a complement of 190.
Her main battery was eight 119 mm (4.7 in) guns in four twin mountings. Her machinery developed 44,000 shp.
She was in commission for 245 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 3 May 1940 by aircraft, at 66°14′N 5°45′E. 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
- 44000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × twin 4.7 in (120 mm) guns
- 1 × quadruple 2-pdr (40 mm) AA guns
- 2 × quadruple 0.5 in (12.7 mm) anti-aircraft machineguns
- 1 × quadruple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 20 × depth charges, 1 × rack, 2 × throwers
Sister ships
- HMAS Arunta (I30)
- HMAS Bataan
- HMAS Warramunga (I44)
- HMCS Athabaskan (G07)
- HMCS Haida
- HMCS Huron (G24)
- HMCS Iroquois (G89)
- HMCS Nootka (R96)
- HMS Ashanti (F51)
- HMS Bedouin
- HMS Cossack (F03)
- HMS Eskimo (F75)
- HMS Gurkha (F20)
- HMS Maori (F24)
- HMS Mashona
- HMS Matabele
- HMS Mohawk (F31)
- HMS Nubian (F36)
- HMS Punjabi
- HMS Sikh (F82)
- HMS Somali
- HMS Tartar (F43)
- HMS Zulu (F18)
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Afridi (F07) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 231 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. [1] ) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons