HMS Grafton (H89)
Service
- as Grafton20 March 1936 — 29 May 1940270 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Grafton
- Pennant / hull number
- H89
- Builder
- John I. Thornycroft & Company, Woolston
- Ordered
- 5 March 1934
- Laid down
- 30 August 1934
- Launched
- 18 September 1935
- Commissioned
- 20 March 1936
- Fate
- Torpedoed and scuttled, 29 May 1940 (1940)
- 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 Grafton was a G-class destroyer, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number H89. Her keel was laid at John I. Thornycroft & Company, Woolston on 30 August 1934. She entered service on 20 March 1936, having been launched on 18 September 1935.
She was one of eleven ships of her class.
Displacement was 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. Her machinery developed 34,000 shp through two shafts.
She was in commission for 270 days of the Second World War.
She was scuttled on 29 May 1940, at 51°24′N 2°49′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
- 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 Grafton (H89) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 22287 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons