HMS Blackmore (L43)
Type II Hunt-class destroyer
Service
- as HMS Blackmore14 April 1942 — 19541,237 days of the war
- as HDMS Esbern Snare1954 — 1965
- Name
- HMS Blackmore
- Pennant / hull number
- L43
- Builder
- A. Stephen & Sons Ltd. (Glasgow
- Ordered
- 20 December 1940
- Laid down
- 10 February 1940
- Launched
- 2 December 1941
- Commissioned
- 14 April 1942
- Decommissioned
- 1965
- Fate
- Scrapped in 1966 (1966)
- 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)
- Beam
- 9.62 m (31.6 ft)
- Draught
- 2.51 m (8.2 ft)
- Speed
- 25.5 knots (47.2 km/h, 29.3 mph)
- Range
- 3,600 nmi (6,667 km)
- Complement
- 164
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS Blackmore was a Type II Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number L43. Her keel was laid at A. Stephen & Sons Ltd. (Glasgow on 10 February 1940. Launched on 2 December 1941, she entered service on 14 April 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 9.6 m (32 ft). Her designed speed was 25.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 164. Her main battery was of 102 mm (4.0 in) calibre.
She served with the Royal Navy as HMS Blackmore until 1954. She then passed to the Royal Danish Navy, serving as HDMS Esbern Snare from 1954. She was in commission for 1,237 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in 1965.
She was broken up for scrap in 1966.
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 shaft Parsons geared turbines; 19,000 shp
- Armament
- 6 × QF 4 in Mark XVI on twin mounts Mk. XIX
- AAA - 2 × 4 12.7mm Vickers, 2 × 20 mm
- 6 Thornycroft depth charge throwers
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Blackmore (L43) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer. — This photograph FL 2205 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Sandip90 . Original uploader was Reuv at en.wikipedia ( Original text: Imperial War Museum ) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons