HMS Intrepid (D10)
Service
- as Intrepid? — 27 September 19431,487 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Intrepid
- Pennant / hull number
- D10
- Builder
- J. Samuel White, Cowes, Isle of Wight
- Laid down
- 13 January 1936
- Launched
- 17 December 1936
- Fate
- Sunk by air attack, 27 September 1943
By aircraft (1943) - 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 Intrepid was a I-class destroyer in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number D10. J. Samuel White, Cowes, Isle of Wight laid her keel on 13 January 1936. She was launched on 17 December 1936.
She was one of eleven ships of her class. 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 1,487 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 27 September 1943 by aircraft, at 37°07′N 26°51′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 × 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 Intrepid (D10) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Claude Henry Parnall — This photograph A 7871 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 4700-01) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons