HMS Airedale
Type III Hunt-class destroyer
Service
- as HMS Airedale8 January 1942 — 15 June 1942158 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Airedale
- Pennant / hull number
- L07
- Builder
- John Brown & Company, Clydebank
- Ordered
- 4 July 1940
- Laid down
- 20 November 1940
- Launched
- 12 August 1941
- Commissioned
- 8 January 1942
- Fate
- Sunk 15 June 1942, 33° 50'N, 23° 50'E (1942)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,050 long tons (1,067 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,490 long tons (1,514 t)
- Length
- 85.34 m (280 ft) OA
- Beam
- 9.45 m (31 ft)
- Draught
- 2.13 m (7 ft)
- Speed
- 27 knots (50 km/h, 31.1 mph)
- Range
- 3,700 nmi (6,852 km)
- Complement
- 168
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS Airedale was a Type III Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number L07. Her keel was laid at John Brown & Company, Clydebank on 20 November 1940. She entered service on 8 January 1942, having been launched on 12 August 1941.
Displacement was 1,050 long tons standard and 1,490 long tons at full load. She measured 85.3 m (280 ft) long with a beam of 9.4 m (31 ft). Her designed speed was 27 knots, and she carried a complement of 168. Her main battery was of 102 mm (4.0 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 158 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 15 June 1942. 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 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 2 shaft Parsons geared turbines, 19000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × QF 4 in Mark XVI guns on twin mounts Mk. XIX
- 4 × QF 2 pdr Mk. VIII (1 × quad mount)
- 3 × 20 mm Oerlikons
- 2 × 21 in torpedo tubes
- 70 depth charges, 4 throwers, 2 racks
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Airedale on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer, Zimmerman, E A (Lt) — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//29/media-29482/large.jpg This photograph A 10473 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons