HMS Bleasdale

Hunt-class destroyer

Service

Royal Navy as HMS Bleasdale? — 19562,193 days of the war

Hunt-class destroyer Particulars

Name: HMS Bleasdale
Pennant / hull number: L50
Builder: Vickers-Armstrongs, Newcastle
Ordered: 19 July 1940
Laid down: 31 October 1940
Launched: 23 July 1941
Fate: Scrapped in 1956 (1956)
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 Bleasdale was a Hunt-class destroyer in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number L50. Her keel was laid at Vickers-Armstrongs, Newcastle on 31 October 1940. She was launched on 23 July 1941.

24 ships of the class were built.

Displacement was 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 1956.

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-pounder (40 mm) Mk. VIII AA guns on quad mount MK.VII
2 × 20 mm Oerlikon AA guns 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 Bleasdale on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//31/media-31474/large.jpg This photograph FL 2362 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons