Royal Navy — Destroyer
G32
HMS Lookout (G32)
L-class destroyer
Service
- as HMS Lookout30 January 1942 — 6 January 19481,313 days of the war
L-class destroyer
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Lookout
- Pennant / hull number
- G32
- Builder
- Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock
- Ordered
- 31 March 1938
- Laid down
- 23 November 1938
- Launched
- 4 November 1940
- Commissioned
- 30 January 1942
- Fate
- Sold for scrapping, 6 January 1948 (1948)
- Status
- Scrapped
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)
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Range
- 5,500 nmi (10,186 km)
- Complement
- 221
HMS Lookout was a L-class destroyer in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number G32. Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock laid her keel on 23 November 1938. She entered service on 30 January 1942, having been launched on 4 November 1940.
She displaced 1,920 long tons. She measured 110.5 m (362 ft) long with a beam of 11.2 m (37 ft). Her designed speed was 36 knots, and she carried a complement of 221.
She was in commission for 1,313 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap on 6 January 1948.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Two shafts
- Two geared steam turbines
- Two drum type boilers
- 48000 shp (35.8 MW)
- Armament
- Original configuration:
- 3 × 2 – QF 4.7-inch Mk XI dual purpose guns
- 1 × 1 – QF 4-inch Mk V anti-aircraft gun
- 1 × 4 – QF 2-pounder Mk VIII anti-aircraft guns
- 2 × 4 – QF .5-inch Vickers Mk III anti-aircraft machine guns
- 2 × 4 – 21 inch torpedo tubes
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Lookout (G32) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: John Alfred Hampton — This photograph A 7250 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 4700-01) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons