Royal Navy — Destroyer
L87
HMS Eglinton (L87)
Type I Hunt-class destroyer
Service
- as HMS Eglinton? — May 19562,193 days of the war
Type I Hunt-class destroyer
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Eglinton
- Pennant / hull number
- L87
- Builder
- Vickers-Armstrongs, River Tyne
- Ordered
- 21 March 1939
- Laid down
- 8 June 1939
- Launched
- 28 December 1939
- Fate
- Scrapped in May 1956 (1956)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,000 long tons (1,016 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,340 long tons (1,362 t)
- Length
- 85 m (278.9 ft) OA
- Beam
- 8.8 m (28.9 ft)
- Draught
- 3.27 m (10.7 ft)
- Speed
- 27.5 knots (50.9 km/h, 31.6 mph)
- Range
- 3,500 nmi (6,482 km)
- Complement
- 146
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS Eglinton was a Type I Hunt-class destroyer, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number L87. Her keel was laid at Vickers-Armstrongs, River Tyne on 8 June 1939. She was launched on 28 December 1939.
She displaced 1,000 long tons standard and 1,340 long tons at full load. She measured 85 m (279 ft) long with a beam of 8.8 m (29 ft). Her designed speed was 27.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 146. Her main battery was of 102 mm (4.0 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in May 1956.
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, 19,000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × QF 4 in Mark XVI guns on twin mounts Mk. XIX
- 4 × QF 2-pounder (40 mm) Mk VIII AA guns on quad mount MK.VII
- 2 × 20-mm Oerlikon AA guns on single mounts P Mk. III
- 40 depth charges, 2 throwers, 1 rack
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Eglinton (L87) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer, Davies, F A (Lt) — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//451/media-451064/large.jpg This photograph A 12236 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons