HMS Antelope (H36)
Service
- as HMS Antelope20 March 1930 — 19462,193 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Antelope
- Pennant / hull number
- H36
- Builder
- Hawthorne Leslie
- Ordered
- 6 March 1928
- Laid down
- 11 July 1928
- Launched
- 27 July 1929
- Commissioned
- 20 March 1930
- Fate
- Scrapped, 1946 (1946)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,350 long tons (1,372 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,773 long tons (1,801 t)
- Length
- 98.45 m (323 ft) OA
- Beam
- 9.75 m (32 ft)
- Draught
- 3.66 m (12 ft)
- Speed
- 35 knots (64.8 km/h, 40.3 mph)
- Range
- 4,800 nmi (8,890 km)
- Complement
- 134
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
HMS Antelope was a A-class destroyer, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number H36. Hawthorne Leslie laid her keel on 11 July 1928. Launched on 27 July 1929, she entered service on 20 March 1930.
Eleven ships of the class were built. The class followed the HMS Ambuscade (D38) and HMS Amazon (D39) and was succeeded by the C and D-class destroyer.
Displacement was 1,350 long tons standard and 1,773 long tons at full load. She measured 98.5 m (323 ft) long with a beam of 9.8 m (32 ft). Her designed speed was 35 knots, and she carried a complement of 134.
Her main battery was four 119 mm (4.7 in) guns. Her machinery developed 34,000 shp.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in 1946.
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
- 34000 shp
- 3 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- Armament
- 4 × single 4.7 in (120 mm) guns
- 2 × single 2-pdr (40 mm) AA guns
- 2 × quadruple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 6 × depth charges, 3 chutes
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Antelope (H36) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 735 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons