HMS Electra (H27)
Service
- as HMS Electra13 September 1934 — 1 January 19462,193 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Electra
- Pennant / hull number
- H27
- Builder
- Hawthorn Leslie and Company, Hebburn
- Ordered
- 1 November 1932
- Laid down
- 15 March 1933
- Launched
- 15 February 1934
- Commissioned
- 13 September 1934
- Struck
- 1 January 1946
- Fate
- Sunk, Battle of the Java Sea, 27 February 1942 (1942)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,405 long tons (1,428 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,940 long tons (1,971 t)
- Length
- 100.28 m (329 ft) OA
- Beam
- 10.06 m (33 ft)
- Draught
- 3.66 m (12 ft)
- Speed
- 35.5 knots (65.7 km/h, 40.9 mph)
- Range
- 6,350 nmi (11,760 km)
- Complement
- 145
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
HMS Electra was a E-class destroyer in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number H27. Hawthorn Leslie and Company, Hebburn laid her keel on 15 March 1933. She entered service on 13 September 1934, having been launched on 15 February 1934.
She was one of eleven ships of her class. The class followed the C and D-class destroyer and was succeeded by the G and H-class destroyer.
She displaced 1,405 long tons standard and 1,940 long tons at full load. She measured 100.3 m (329 ft) long with a beam of 10.1 m (33 ft). Her designed speed was 35.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 145. Her main battery was of 120 mm (4.7 in) calibre.
Her machinery developed 36,000 shp.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 1 January 1946.
She was sunk on 27 February 1942, at 5°00′S 111°00′E. 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
- 2 × shafts; 2 × Parsons geared steam turbines
- Power
- 36000 shp
- 3 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- Armament
- 4 × single QF 4.7-inch (120 mm) Mk IX guns
- 2 × quadruple 0.5 in machine guns
- 2 × quadruple 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 20 × depth charges, 1 rack and 2 throwers
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Electra (H27) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer Post-Work: User:W.wolny — This photograph FL 24524 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons