HMS Imogen (D44)
Service
- as Imogen? — 16 July 1940319 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Imogen
- Pennant / hull number
- D44
- Builder
- Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn
- Ordered
- 30 October 1935
- Laid down
- 18 January 1936
- Launched
- 30 December 1936
- Fate
- Sunk in a collision with HMS Glasgow (C21), 16 July 1940
By collision (1940) - Status
- Wreck
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 Imogen was a I-class destroyer in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number D44. Her keel was laid at Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn on 18 January 1936. She was launched on 30 December 1936.
Her class ran to eleven ships. The class followed the G and H-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Tribal-class destroyer (1936).
She displaced 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 319 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 16 July 1940 by collision, at 58°34′N 2°54′W. 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 × quintuple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 1 × rack and 2 throwers for 16 depth charges
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Imogen (D44) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 22343 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons