HMS Legion (G74)

L-class destroyer

Service

Royal Navy as HMS Legion19 December 1940 — 26 March 1942462 days of the war

L-class destroyer Particulars

Name: HMS Legion
Pennant / hull number: G74
Builder: Hawthorn Leslie and Company, Newcastle upon Tyne
Ordered: 31 March 1938
Laid down: 1 November 1938
Launched: 26 December 1939
Commissioned: 19 December 1940
Fate: Sunk on 26 March 1942 in air attack
By aircraft (1942)
Status: Wreck

Specifications

Displacement, standard: 1,920 long tons (1,951 t)
Length: 110.49 m (362.5 ft)
Beam: 11.19 m (36.7 ft)
Draught: 3.05 m (10 ft)
Range: 5,500 nmi (10,186 km)
Complement: 221
Main gun: 102 mm (4 in)

HMS Legion was a L-class destroyer in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number G74. Her keel was laid at Hawthorn Leslie and Company, Newcastle upon Tyne on 1 November 1938. She entered service on 19 December 1940, having been launched on 26 December 1939.

She displaced 1,920 long tons. She measured 110.5 m (362 ft) long with a beam of 11.2 m (37 ft). She carried a complement of 221. Her main battery was of 102 mm (4.0 in) calibre.

She was in commission for 462 days of the Second World War.

She was sunk on 26 March 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

Propulsion: Two shafts
Two geared steam turbines
Two drum type boilers
48,000 shp (35.8 MW)
Armament: 8 × QF 4 in Mk.XVI guns, twin mount HA/LA Mk.XIX
4 × QF 2 pdr Mk.VIII L/39 (40 mm), quad mount Mk.VII
8 × QF 0.5 in Mk.III Vickers (12.7 mm), quad mounts Mk.III
8 (2 × 4) tubes for 21 inch (533 mm) torpedoes Mk.IX

Sister ships

Sources

Facts harvested from HMS Legion (G74) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 12005 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons