HMS Mendip
Type I Hunt-class destroyer
Service
- 12 October 1940 — 20 May 19461,786 days of the war
- as Lin Fu21 January 1948 — 29 May 1949
- as Mohammed Ali el-Kebir9 November 1949 — 31 October 1956
- as INS Haifa31 October 1956 — 1968
- Name
- HMS Mendip
- Pennant / hull number
- L60
- Builder
- Swan Hunter, Wallsend
- Ordered
- 11 April 1939
- Laid down
- 10 August 1939
- Launched
- 9 April 1940
- Commissioned
- 12 October 1940
- Decommissioned
- 1968
- Recommissioned
- June 1949
- Fate
- Used as target ship, sank by missile in 1970 (1970)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,050 long tons (1,067 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,430 long tons (1,453 t)
- Length
- 85.3 m (279.9 ft) OA
- Beam
- 9.6 m (31.5 ft)
- Draught
- 2.51 m (8.2 ft)
- Speed
- 27.5 knots (50.9 km/h, 31.6 mph)
- Range
- 3,500 nmi (6,482 km)
- Complement
- 164
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS Mendip was a Type I Hunt-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number L60. Her keel was laid at Swan Hunter, Wallsend on 10 August 1939. Launched on 9 April 1940, she entered service on 12 October 1940.
Displacement was 1,050 long tons standard and 1,430 long tons at full load. She measured 85.3 m (280 ft) long with a beam of 9.6 m (31 ft). Her designed speed was 27.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 164. Her main battery was of 102 mm (4.0 in) calibre.
She served with the Royal Navy until 20 May 1946. She then passed to the Chinese Navy, serving as Lin Fu from 21 January 1948. She was in commission for 1,786 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in 1968. She recommissioned in June 1949.
She was expended as a target in 1970. 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 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 2 shaft Parsons geared turbines, 19000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × QF 4 in Mark XVI guns on twin mounts Mk. XIX
- 4 × QF 2-pounder (40 mm) Mk. VIII AA guns on quad mount MK.VII
- 2 × 20 mm Oerlikon AA guns on single mounts P Mk. III
- 50 depth charges, 2 throwers, 1 rack
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Mendip on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 15174 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons