HMS Cavendish (R15)
Service
- as Cavendish28 July 1944 — 1 January 1965401 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Cavendish
- Pennant / hull number
- R15
- Builder
- John Brown, Clydebank
- Ordered
- February 1942
- Laid down
- 19 May 1943
- Launched
- 12 April 1944
- Commissioned
- 28 July 1944
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 2 August 1967 (1967)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,730 long tons (1,758 t)
- Length
- 110.34 m (362 ft) OA
- Beam
- 10.67 m (35 ft)
- Draught
- 4.27 m (14 ft)
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Range
- 4,675 nmi (8,658 km)
- Complement
- 222
- Main gun
- 114 mm (4.5 in)
HMS Cavendish was a C-class destroyer (1943) destroyer of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number R15. Her keel was laid at John Brown, Clydebank on 19 May 1943. She entered service on 28 July 1944, having been launched on 12 April 1944.
Her class ran to 40 ships. The class followed the W and Z-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Weapon-class destroyer.
She displaced 1,730 long tons. She measured 110.3 m (362 ft) long with a beam of 10.7 m (35 ft). Her designed speed was 36 knots, and she carried a complement of 222.
Her main battery was four 114 mm (4.5 in) guns. Her machinery developed 40,000 shp through two shafts.
She was in commission for 401 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap on 2 August 1967.
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
- 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 40000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × single 4.5 in DP guns
- 1 × twin 40 mm AA gun
- 2 × twin and 2 × single 20 mm AA guns
- 2 × quadruple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 4 throwers and 2 racks for 108 depth charges
Sister ships
- HMCS Assiniboine (I18)
- HMCS Crescent
- HMCS Fraser (H48)
- HMCS Ottawa (H60)
- HMCS Restigouche (H00)
- HMCS St. Laurent (H83)
- HMS Caesar (R07)
- HMS Cairo
- HMS Calcutta (D82)
- HMS Caledon (D53)
- HMS Calypso (D61)
- HMS Cambrian (R85)
- HMS Capetown
- HMS Caprice
- HMS Caradoc (D60)
- HMS Cardiff (D58)
- HMS Carlisle (D67)
- HMS Carron (R30)
- HMS Carysfort (R25)
- HMS Cassandra (R62)
- HMS Cavalier
- HMS Ceres (D59)
- HMS Chaplet
- HMS Charity (R29)
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Cavendish (R15) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 7693 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons