HMS Esk (H15)
Service
- as HMS Esk28 September 1934 — 31 August 1940362 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Esk
- Pennant / hull number
- H15
- Builder
- Swan Hunter, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
- Ordered
- 1 November 1932
- Laid down
- 24 March 1933
- Launched
- 19 March 1934
- Commissioned
- 28 September 1934
- Fate
- Sunk by mine, 31 August 1940
By mine (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 Esk was a E-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number H15. Her keel was laid at Swan Hunter, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom on 24 March 1933. Launched on 19 March 1934, she entered service on 28 September 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 362 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 31 August 1940 by mine, at 53°27′N 3°48′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
- 60 mines
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Esk (H15) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 10196 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons