HMS Dasher (D37)
Service
- as HMS Dasher2 July 1942 — 27 March 1943268 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Dasher
- Pennant / hull number
- D37
- Builder
- Sun Shipbuilding
- Laid down
- 14 March 1940
- Launched
- 11 April 1941
- Commissioned
- 2 July 1942
- Fate
- Sunk by internal explosion 27 March 1943
By accident (1943) - Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 8,200 long tons (8,332 t)
- Length
- 149.96 m (492 ft)
- Beam
- 20.12 m (66 ft)
- Draught
- 7.01 m (23 ft)
- Speed
- 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h, 19 mph)
- Complement
- 555
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS Dasher was a Avenger-class escort carrier of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number D37. Sun Shipbuilding laid her keel on 14 March 1940. Launched on 11 April 1941, she entered service on 2 July 1942.
She was one of three ships of her class. The class followed the Long Island-class escort carrier and was succeeded by the Attacker-class escort carrier (RN), Bogue-class escort carrier (USN).
She displaced 8,200 long tons. She measured 150.0 m (492 ft) long with a beam of 20.1 m (66 ft). Her designed speed was 16.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 555. Her main battery was of 102 mm (4.0 in) calibre.
She carried 15 aircraft. Her machinery developed 8,500 bhp.
She was in commission for 268 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 27 March 1943 by accident, at 55°37′N 5°00′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
- 4 × William Doxford & Sons diesels
- 1 × shaft
- Power
- 8500 bhp
- Armament
- 3 × 4 inch DP, AA guns in single mounts
- 15 × 20 mm anti-aircraft cannons in single or twin mounts
- Aircraft
- 15
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Dasher (D37) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: John Alfred Hampton — This photograph A 15348 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons