HMS Impulsive
Service
- as Impulsive29 January 1938 — 19462,193 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Impulsive
- Pennant / hull number
- D11
- Builder
- J. Samuel White and Company, Cowes
- Laid down
- March 1936
- Launched
- 1 March 1937
- Commissioned
- 29 January 1938
- 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 Impulsive was a I-class destroyer in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number D11. Her keel was laid at J. Samuel White and Company, Cowes in March 1936. She entered service on 29 January 1938, having been launched on 1 March 1937.
Eleven ships of the class were built. 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. Her machinery developed 34,000 shp through two shafts.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War.
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 Impulsive on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 8915 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons