HMS Boadicea (H65)
Service
- as Boadicea? — 13 June 19441,747 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Boadicea
- Pennant / hull number
- H65
- Namesake
- Boadicea
- Builder
- Hawthorn Leslie
- Ordered
- 4 March 1929
- Laid down
- 11 July 1929
- Launched
- 23 September 1930
- Fate
- Sunk 13 June 1944, Lyme Bay (1944)
- 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 Boadicea was a B-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number H65. The ship was named after Boadicea. Hawthorn Leslie laid her keel on 11 July 1929. She was launched on 23 September 1930.
She was one of nine ships of her class. The class followed the HMS Ambuscade (D38) and HMS Amazon (D39) and was succeeded by the C and D-class destroyer.
Displacement was 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 1,747 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 13 June 1944, at 50°26′N 2°46′W. 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 Boadicea (H65) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Beadell, S J (Lt), Royal Navy official photographer — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//18/media-18034/large.jpg This photograph A 15522 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons