HMS Belvoir (L32)

Type III Hunt-class destroyer

Service

Royal Navy as HMS Belvoir? — 19572,193 days of the war

Type III Hunt-class destroyer Particulars

Name: HMS Belvoir
Pennant / hull number: L32
Builder: Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
Ordered: 4 July 1940
Laid down: 14 October 1940
Launched: 18 November 1941
Fate: Scrapped 1957 (1957)
Status: Scrapped

Specifications

Displacement, standard: 1,050 long tons (1,067 t)
Displacement, full load: 1,435 long tons (1,458 t)
Length: 85.3 m (279.9 ft) OA
Beam: 10.16 m (33.3 ft)
Draught: 3.51 m (11.5 ft)
Speed: 27 knots (50 km/h, 31.1 mph)
Range: 2,350 nmi (4,352 km)
Complement: 168
Main gun: 102 mm (4 in)

HMS Belvoir was a Type III Hunt-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number L32. Her keel was laid at Cammell Laird, Birkenhead on 14 October 1940. She was launched on 18 November 1941.

She displaced 1,050 long tons standard and 1,435 long tons at full load. She measured 85.3 m (280 ft) long with a beam of 10.2 m (33 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 2,193 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

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 on quad mount MK.VII
2 × 20 mm Oerlikons on single mounts P Mk. III
2 × 21 in torpedo tubes
110 depth charges, 4 throwers, 3 racks

Sister ships

Sources

Facts harvested from HMS Belvoir (L32) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 1745 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons