HMS Fury (H76)
Service
- as Fury18 May 1935 — 21 June 19441,755 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Fury
- Pennant / hull number
- H76
- Builder
- J. Samuel White, Cowes, Isle of Wight
- Ordered
- 17 March 1933
- Laid down
- 19 May 1933
- Launched
- 10 September 1934
- Commissioned
- 18 May 1935
- Fate
- Damaged by mine and wrecked, 21 June 1944
Scrapped beginning 18 September 1944 (1944) - Status
- Scrapped
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 Fury was a F-class destroyer, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number H76. Her keel was laid at J. Samuel White, Cowes, Isle of Wight on 19 May 1933. Launched on 10 September 1934, she entered service on 18 May 1935.
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. 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 1,755 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap on 21 June 1944.
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 Fury (H76) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 4067 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons