HMS Atherstone (L05)
Type I Hunt-class destroyer
Service
- as HMS Atherstone23 March 1940 — 19571,989 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Atherstone
- Pennant / hull number
- L05
- Builder
- Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
- Ordered
- 21 March 1939
- Laid down
- 8 June 1939
- Launched
- 12 December 1939
- Commissioned
- 23 March 1940
- Fate
- Sold for scrap 1957 (1957)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,000 long tons (1,016 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,340 long tons (1,362 t)
- Length
- 85.34 m (280 ft) OA
- Beam
- 8.84 m (29 ft)
- Draught
- 2.13 m (7 ft)
- Speed
- 27.5 knots (50.9 km/h, 31.6 mph)
- Range
- 2,500 nmi (4,630 km)
- Complement
- 146
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS Atherstone was a Type I Hunt-class destroyer, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number L05. Cammell Laird, Birkenhead laid her keel on 8 June 1939. She entered service on 23 March 1940, having been launched on 12 December 1939.
Displacement was 1,000 long tons standard and 1,340 long tons at full load. She measured 85.3 m (280 ft) long with a beam of 8.8 m (29 ft). Her designed speed was 27.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 146. Her main battery was of 102 mm (4.0 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 1,989 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in 1957.
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-pounder (40 mm) Mk VIII AA guns (1 × quad mount)
- 30 depth charges
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Atherstone (L05) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: War Office official photographer — This photograph H 23637 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 4700-37) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons