HMS Chaplet
Service
- as HMS Chaplet24 August 1945 — 19619 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Chaplet
- Pennant / hull number
- R52
- Builder
- Thornycroft, Woolston
- Ordered
- 24 July 1942
- Laid down
- 29 April 1943
- Launched
- 18 July 1944
- Commissioned
- 24 August 1945
- Decommissioned
- 1961
- Fate
- Arrived for scrapping at Hughes Bolckow, Blyth on 6 November 1965 (1965)
- Status
- Unknown
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,710 long tons (1,737 t)
- Length
- 110.57 m (362.8 ft)
- Beam
- 10.87 m (35.7 ft)
- Draught
- 3.05 m (10 ft)
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Complement
- 186
- Main gun
- 114 mm (4.5 in)
HMS Chaplet was a C-class destroyer (1943) destroyer in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number R52. Her keel was laid at Thornycroft, Woolston on 29 April 1943. She entered service on 24 August 1945, having been launched on 18 July 1944.
She was one of 40 ships of her class. The class followed the W and Z-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Weapon-class destroyer.
Displacement was 1,710 long tons. She measured 110.6 m (363 ft) long with a beam of 10.9 m (36 ft). Her designed speed was 36 knots, and she carried a complement of 186. Her main battery was of 114 mm (4.5 in) calibre.
40,000 hp drove two shafts.
She was in commission for 9 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in 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
- Parsons geared turbines, 2 shafts; 2 Admiralty 3-drum type boilers
- Power
- 40000 hp
- Armament
- 4 X QF 4.5 in L/45 guns
- 4 X 20 mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft weapons
- 4 X 21 inch (533 mm) torpedoes
- 2 X Squid ASW mortars (after 1954)
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 Cavendish (R15)
- HMS Ceres (D59)
- HMS Charity (R29)
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Chaplet on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 7864 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons