Royal Navy — Destroyer
L11
HMS Fernie
Type I Hunt-class destroyer
- Displacement
- 1,000 long tons (1,016 t)
- Length
- 85 m (278.9 ft)
- Beam
- 8.8 m (28.9 ft)
- Speed
- 27.5 knots (50.9 km/h, 31.6 mph)
- Complement
- 146
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
Service
- as Fernie? — 19562,193 days of the war
Type I Hunt-class destroyer
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Fernie
- Pennant / hull number
- L11
- Builder
- John Brown & Company, Clydebank
- Ordered
- 21 March 1939
- Laid down
- 8 June 1939
- Launched
- 12 December 1939
- Fate
- Scrapped, 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 Fernie was a Type I Hunt-class destroyer, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number L11. John Brown & Company, Clydebank laid her keel on 8 June 1939. She was launched on 12 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.
19,000 shp drove two shafts.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in 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 shafts; 2 geared steam turbines
- Power
- 2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 19000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × QF 4 in guns
- 4 × 2-pdr (40 mm) AA guns
- 2 × 20 mm AA guns
- 40 depth charges, 2 throwers, 1 rack
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Fernie on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.