HMS Icarus (D03)
- Displacement
- 1,370 long tons (1,392 t)
- Length
- 98.45 m (323 ft)
- Beam
- 10.06 m (33 ft)
- Speed
- 35.5 knots (65.7 km/h, 40.9 mph)
- Complement
- 145
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
Service
- as Icarus1 May 1937 — 29 August 19462,193 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Icarus
- Pennant / hull number
- D03
- Builder
- John Brown and Company, Clydebank, Scotland
- Laid down
- 9 March 1936
- Launched
- 26 November 1936
- Commissioned
- 1 May 1937
- Decommissioned
- 29 August 1946
- Fate
- Scrapped, 1946 (1946)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,370 long tons (1,392 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,888 long tons (1,918 t)
- Length
- 98.45 m (323 ft)
- Beam
- 10.06 m (33 ft)
- Draught
- 3.66 m (12 ft)
- Speed
- 35.5 knots (65.7 km/h, 40.9 mph)
- Range
- 5,500 nmi (10,186 km)
- Complement
- 145
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
HMS Icarus was a I-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number D03. Her keel was laid at John Brown and Company, Clydebank, Scotland on 9 March 1936. Launched on 26 November 1936, she entered service on 1 May 1937.
Her class ran to eleven ships. The class followed the G and H-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Tribal-class destroyer (1936).
Displacement was 1,370 long tons standard and 1,888 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 35.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 145.
Her main battery was four 119 mm (4.7 in) guns. 34,000 shp drove two shafts.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 29 August 1946.
She was broken up for scrap in 1946.
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 × quintuple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 1 × rack and 2 throwers for 16 depth charges
- 60 mines
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Icarus (D03) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.