Royal Navy — Destroyer
HMS Mackay
Admiralty-type flotilla leader
Service
- as HMS MackayJune 1919 — June 19492,193 days of the war
Admiralty-type flotilla leader
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Mackay
- Builder
- Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
- Laid down
- 5 March 1918
- Launched
- 21 December 1918
- Commissioned
- June 1919
- Fate
- Scrapped June 1949 (1949)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,801 long tons (1,830 t)
- Length
- 101.19 m (332 ft)
- Beam
- 9.45 m (31 ft)
- Draught
- 3.66 m (12 ft)
- Speed
- 36.5 knots (67.6 km/h, 42 mph)
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
HMS Mackay was a destroyer of the Admiralty-type flotilla leader built for the Royal Navy. Cammell Laird, Birkenhead laid her keel on 5 March 1918. She entered service in June 1919, having been launched on 21 December 1918.
She displaced 1,801 long tons. She measured 101.2 m (332 ft) long with a beam of 9.4 m (31 ft). Her designed speed was 36.5 knots. Her main battery was of 120 mm (4.7 in) calibre.
40,000 shp drove two shafts.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in June 1949.
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 ×Parsons Turbines
- 2 shafts
- Power
- 40000 shp
- Armament
- 5 × BL 4.7-inch (120 mm) guns
- 1 × 3 in anti-aircraft gun
- 2 × 2-pounder guns
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Mackay on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 14978 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons