HMS Kandahar
Service
- as HMS Kandahar10 October 1939 — 19 December 1941801 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Kandahar
- Pennant / hull number
- F28
- Builder
- William Denny & Brothers
- Ordered
- March 1935
- Laid down
- 18 January 1938
- Launched
- 21 March 1939
- Commissioned
- 10 October 1939
- Fate
- Mined, 19 December 1941
Scuttled by HMS Jaguar (F34) 20 December 1941 (1941) - Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,690 long tons (1,717 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 2,330 long tons (2,367 t)
- Length
- 108.51 m (356 ft) OA
- Beam
- 10.67 m (35 ft)
- Draught
- 3.66 m (12 ft)
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Range
- 5,500 nmi (10,186 km)
- Complement
- 183
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
HMS Kandahar was a K-class destroyer, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number F28. William Denny & Brothers laid her keel on 18 January 1938. Launched on 21 March 1939, she entered service on 10 October 1939.
Her class ran to 15 ships. The class followed the Soviet S-class submarine and was succeeded by the Zulu-class submarine.
Displacement was 1,690 long tons standard and 2,330 long tons at full load. She measured 108.5 m (356 ft) long with a beam of 10.7 m (35 ft). Her designed speed was 36 knots, and she carried a complement of 183. Her main battery was of 120 mm (4.7 in) calibre.
Her machinery developed 44,000 shp.
She was in commission for 801 days of the Second World War.
She was scuttled on 19 December 1941, at 32°57′N 14°19′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
- 44000 shp
- 2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- Armament
- 3 × twin QF 4.7-inch (120 mm) Mk XII guns
- 1 × quadruple QF 2-pounder anti-aircraft guns
- 2 × quadruple QF 0.5-inch (12.7 mm) Mk III anti-aircraft machineguns
- 2 × quintuple 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 20 × depth charges, 1 × rack, 2 × throwers
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Kandahar on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph A109 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons