HMS Eskimo (F75)
Service
- as Eskimo? — 27 June 19492,193 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Eskimo
- Pennant / hull number
- F75
- Namesake
- Eskimo
- Builder
- Vickers-Armstrongs, Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne
- Ordered
- 19 June 1936
- Laid down
- 5 August 1936
- Launched
- 3 September 1937
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 27 June 1949 (1949)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,891 long tons (1,921 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 2,519 long tons (2,559 t)
- Length
- 114.91 m (377 ft) OA
- Beam
- 10.97 m (36 ft)
- Draught
- 3.35 m (11 ft)
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Range
- 5,700 nmi (10,556 km)
- Complement
- 190
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
HMS Eskimo was a Tribal-class destroyer, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number F75. The ship was named after Eskimo. Her keel was laid at Vickers-Armstrongs, Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne on 5 August 1936. She was launched on 3 September 1937.
24 ships of the class were built. The class followed the I-class destroyer and was succeeded by the J class.
Displacement was 1,891 long tons standard and 2,519 long tons at full load. She measured 114.9 m (377 ft) long with a beam of 11.0 m (36 ft). Her designed speed was 36 knots, and she carried a complement of 190.
Her main battery was eight 119 mm (4.7 in) guns in four twin mountings. Her machinery developed 44,000 shp.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap on 27 June 1949.
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 × geared steam turbines
- Power
- 3 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 44000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × twin 4.7 in (120 mm) guns
- 1 × quadruple 2-pdr (40 mm) AA guns
- 2 × quadruple 0.5 in (12.7 mm) anti-aircraft machineguns
- 1 × quadruple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 20 × depth charges, 1 × rack, 2 × throwers
Sister ships
- HMAS Arunta (I30)
- HMAS Bataan
- HMAS Warramunga (I44)
- HMCS Athabaskan (G07)
- HMCS Haida
- HMCS Huron (G24)
- HMCS Iroquois (G89)
- HMCS Nootka (R96)
- HMS Afridi (F07)
- HMS Ashanti (F51)
- HMS Bedouin
- HMS Cossack (F03)
- HMS Gurkha (F20)
- HMS Maori (F24)
- HMS Mashona
- HMS Matabele
- HMS Mohawk (F31)
- HMS Nubian (F36)
- HMS Punjabi
- HMS Sikh (F82)
- HMS Somali
- HMS Tartar (F43)
- HMS Zulu (F18)
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Eskimo (F75) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 10008 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29 [1] ) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons