HMS Albrighton
Type III Hunt-class destroyer
Service
- as Albrighton22 February 1942 — 11 November 19571,288 days of the war
- as Raule14 May 1959 — 1968
- Name
- HMS Albrighton
- Pennant / hull number
- L12
- Namesake
- Albrighton Hunt
- Builder
- John Brown & Company, Clydebank
- Ordered
- 4 July 1940
- Laid down
- 30 December 1940
- Launched
- 11 October 1941
- Commissioned
- 22 February 1942
- Decommissioned
- 1968
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 1969 (1969)
- Status
- Scrapped
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 Albrighton was a Type III Hunt-class destroyer in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number L12. She was named for Albrighton Hunt. John Brown & Company, Clydebank laid her keel on 30 December 1940. Launched on 11 October 1941, she entered service on 22 February 1942.
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 served with the Royal Navy as Albrighton until 11 November 1957. She then passed to the Kriegsmarine, serving as Raule from 14 May 1959. She was in commission for 1,288 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in 1968.
She was broken up for scrap in 1969.
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
- 5 × QF 2 pdr Mk. VIII (1 × quad mount and 1 × single bow chaser mount)
- 3 × 20 mm Oerlikons
- 2 × 21 in torpedo tubes
- 70 depth charges, 4 throwers, 2 racks
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Albrighton on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 374 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons