HMS Blanche (H47)
Service
- as Blanche? — 13 November 193973 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Blanche
- Pennant / hull number
- H47
- Builder
- Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn
- Ordered
- 4 March 1929
- Laid down
- 29 July 1929
- Launched
- 29 May 1930
- Fate
- Sunk by mine, 13 November 1939
By mine (1939) - Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,360 long tons (1,382 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
- 142
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
HMS Blanche was a B-class destroyer in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number H47. Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn laid her keel on 29 July 1929. She was launched on 29 May 1930.
Her class ran to nine ships. The class followed the HMS Ambuscade (D38) and HMS Amazon (D39) and was succeeded by the C and D-class destroyer.
She displaced 1,360 long tons. 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 142.
Her main battery was four 119 mm (4.7 in) guns. Her machinery developed 34,000 shp.
She was in commission for 73 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 13 November 1939 by mine. The wreck survives.
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
- 3 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 34000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × single 4.7 in (120 mm) guns
- 2 × single 2 pdr (40 mm) AA guns
- 2 × quadruple 21 in torpedo tubes
- 1 × depth charge rail and 2 throwers; 20 × depth charges
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Blanche (H47) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 2352 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons