HMS Escort (H66)
Service
- as HMS Escort30 October 1934 — 8 July 1940311 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Escort
- Pennant / hull number
- H66
- Builder
- Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock, Scotland
- Ordered
- 1 November 1932
- Laid down
- 30 March 1933
- Launched
- 29 March 1934
- Commissioned
- 30 October 1934
- Fate
- Torpedoed by the Italian submarine Guglielmo Marconi (1939), 8 July 1940
Sank while under tow, 11 July 1940
By submarine (1940) - 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 Escort was a E-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number H66. Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock, Scotland laid her keel on 30 March 1933. Launched on 29 March 1934, she entered service on 30 October 1934.
Her class ran to eleven ships. The class followed the C and D-class destroyer and was succeeded by the G and H-class destroyer.
Displacement was 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 311 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 8 July 1940 by submarine, at 36°07′N 3°22′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
- 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 Escort (H66) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: photographer not identified. Official photograph. — This photograph FL 8996 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons