HMS Foresight (H68)
Service
- as Foresight? — 13 August 19421,077 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Foresight
- Pennant / hull number
- H68
- Builder
- Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
- Ordered
- 17 March 1933
- Laid down
- 31 July 1933
- Launched
- 29 June 1934
- Fate
- Sunk, 13 August 1942 (1942)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,405 long tons (1,428 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 Foresight was a F-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number H68. Cammell Laird, Birkenhead laid her keel on 31 July 1933. She was launched on 29 June 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.
She displaced 1,405 long tons. 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 four 119 mm (4.7 in) guns. Her machinery developed 36,000 shp.
She was in commission for 1,077 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 13 August 1942, at 37°40′N 10°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 × geared steam turbines
- Power
- 3 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 36000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × single 4.7 in (120 mm) guns
- 2 × quadruple 0.5 in machine guns
- 2 × quadruple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 20 × depth charges, 1 rack and 2 throwers
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Foresight (H68) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 4063 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons