HMS Brecon (L76)
Type IV Hunt-class destroyer destroyer
Service
- as HMS Brecon18 December 1942 — 12 December 1945989 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Brecon
- Pennant / hull number
- L76
- Builder
- Thornycroft, Woolston
- Ordered
- 1940
- Laid down
- 27 February 1941
- Launched
- 27 June 1942
- Commissioned
- 18 December 1942
- Decommissioned
- 12 December 1945
- Fate
- Sold for scrapping to BISCO August 1961. Broken Up 1962 by Shipbreaking Industries, Faslane (1961)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,175 long tons (1,194 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,561 long tons (1,586 t)
- Length
- 90.22 m (296 ft) OA
- Beam
- 9.6 m (31.5 ft)
- Draught
- 2.36 m (7.7 ft)
- Speed
- 26 knots (48.2 km/h, 29.9 mph)
- Range
- 950 nmi (1,759 km)
- Complement
- 170
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS Brecon was a Type IV Hunt-class destroyer destroyer in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number L76. Her keel was laid at Thornycroft, Woolston on 27 February 1941. She entered service on 18 December 1942, having been launched on 27 June 1942.
She displaced 1,175 long tons standard and 1,561 long tons at full load. She measured 90.2 m (296 ft) long with a beam of 9.6 m (31 ft). Her designed speed was 26 knots, and she carried a complement of 170. Her main battery was of 102 mm (4.0 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 989 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 12 December 1945.
She was broken up for scrap in August 1961.
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 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 2 shaft Parsons geared turbines, 19000 shp
- Armament
- 6 × 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
- 4 × 0.5 in Vickers machine guns on twin mounts Mk. V, later replaced by 4 × 20 mm Oerlikons on twin mounts Mk. V
- 3 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 40 depth charges, 2 throwers, 1 rack
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Brecon (L76) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//18/media-18638/large.jpg This photograph FL 2875 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons