HMS Cheviot
Service
- as Cheviot11 December 1945 — March 1960
- Name
- HMS Cheviot
- Pennant / hull number
- R90
- Builder
- Alexander Stephen & Sons, Linthouse
- Ordered
- 24 July 1942
- Laid down
- 27 April 1943
- Launched
- 2 May 1944
- Commissioned
- 11 December 1945
- Decommissioned
- March 1960
- Fate
- Scrapped by Thos. W. Ward, Inverkeithing from 22 October 1962 (1962)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,885 long tons (1,915 t)
- Length
- 110.34 m (362 ft) OA
- Beam
- 10.67 m (35 ft)
- Draught
- 4.57 m (15 ft)
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Range
- 4,675 nmi (8,658 km)
- Complement
- 186
- Main gun
- 114 mm (4.5 in)
HMS Cheviot was a C-class destroyer (1943) destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number R90. Alexander Stephen & Sons, Linthouse laid her keel on 27 April 1943. Launched on 2 May 1944, she entered service on 11 December 1945.
Her class ran to 40 ships. The class followed the W and Z-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Weapon-class destroyer.
Displacement was 1,885 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 186.
Her main battery was four 114 mm (4.5 in) guns. 40,000 shp drove two shafts.
She was decommissioned in March 1960.
She was broken up for scrap on 22 October 1962.
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 20 mm AA guns
- 2 × quadruple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 2 throwers and 2 racks for 35 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 Cavendish (R15)
- HMS Ceres (D59)
- HMS Chaplet
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Cheviot on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 7998 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons