HMS Gallant (H59)
Service
- as Gallant? — September 19431,488 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Gallant
- Pennant / hull number
- H59
- Builder
- Alexander Stephen and Sons, Glasgow
- Ordered
- 5 March 1934
- Laid down
- 15 September 1934
- Launched
- 26 September 1935
- Fate
- Sunk as a blockship, September 1943 (1943)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,350 long tons (1,372 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,883 long tons (1,913 t)
- Length
- 98.45 m (323 ft)
- Beam
- 10.06 m (33 ft)
- Draught
- 3.66 m (12 ft)
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Range
- 5,530 nmi (10,242 km)
- Complement
- 137
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
HMS Gallant was a G-class destroyer in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number H59. Her keel was laid at Alexander Stephen and Sons, Glasgow on 15 September 1934. She was launched on 26 September 1935.
Eleven ships of the class were built.
She displaced 1,350 long tons standard and 1,883 long tons at full load. She measured 98.5 m (323 ft) long with a beam of 10.1 m (33 ft). Her designed speed was 36 knots, and she carried a complement of 137.
Her main battery was four 119 mm (4.7 in) guns. 34,000 shp drove two shafts.
She was in commission for 1,488 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk in September 1943. 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
- 34000 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 rail and 2 throwers
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Gallant (H59) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 22249 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons