HMS Ithuriel (H05)
Service
- as Ithuriel3 March 1942 — 28 November 1942270 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Ithuriel
- Pennant / hull number
- H05
- Builder
- Vickers-Armstrongs
- Laid down
- 24 May 1939
- Launched
- 15 December 1940
- Commissioned
- 3 March 1942
- Fate
- Damaged beyond repair by enemy aircraft, 28 November 1942
By aircraft (1942) - Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,360 long tons (1,382 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,880 long tons (1,910 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 Ithuriel was a I-class destroyer in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number H05. Her keel was laid at Vickers-Armstrongs on 24 May 1939. She entered service on 3 March 1942, having been launched on 15 December 1940.
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 1,360 long tons standard and 1,880 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 270 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 28 November 1942 by aircraft. 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
- 1 × single 12 pdr (3 in) AA gun
- 4 × single 20 mm AA guns
- 1 × quadruple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 1 × rack and 2 throwers for 35 depth charges
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Ithuriel (H05) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 22375 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons