HMS Haydon

Hunt-class destroyer

Service

Royal Navy as Haydon? — 19582,193 days of the war

Hunt-class destroyer Particulars

Name: HMS Haydon
Builder: Vickers-Armstrongs, High Walker
Ordered: 23 August 1940
Laid down: 1 May 1941
Launched: 2 April 1942
Fate: Scrapped in 1958 (1958)
Status: Scrapped

Specifications

Displacement, standard: 1,050 long tons (1,067 t)
Displacement, full load: 1,435 long tons (1,458 t)
Length: 85.3 m (279.9 ft) OA
Beam: 10.16 m (33.3 ft)
Draught: 3.51 m (11.5 ft)
Speed: 27 knots (50 km/h, 31.1 mph)
Range: 2,350 nmi (4,352 km)
Complement: 168
Main gun: 102 mm (4 in)

HMS Haydon was a Hunt-class destroyer in service with the Royal Navy. Vickers-Armstrongs, High Walker laid her keel on 1 May 1941. She was launched on 2 April 1942.

She was one of 24 ships of her class.

She displaced 1,050 long tons standard and 1,435 long tons at full load. She measured 85.3 m (280 ft) long with a beam of 10.2 m (33 ft). Her designed speed was 27 knots, and she carried a complement of 168. Her main battery was of 102 mm (4.0 in) calibre.

She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War.

She was broken up for scrap in 1958.

Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.

Armament and machinery

Propulsion: 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
2 shaft Parsons geared turbines, 19000 shp
Armament: 4 × QF 4 in Mark XVI guns on twin mounts Mk. XIX
4 × QF 2-pounder (40 mm) Mk. VIII AA guns on quad mount MK.VII
2 × 20 mm Oerlikon AA guns on single mounts P Mk. III
2 × 21 in torpedo tubes
110 depth charges, 4 throwers, 3 racks

Sister ships

Sources

Facts harvested from HMS Haydon on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//19/media-19473/large.jpg This photograph FL 13815 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons