Royal Navy — Cruiser
F85
HMS Montclare
Service
- as MontclareAugust 1939 — October 19542,193 days of the war
HMS Montclare
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Montclare
- Pennant / hull number
- F85
- Builder
- John Brown & co, Clydebank
- Launched
- 18 December 1921
- Commissioned
- August 1939
- Decommissioned
- October 1954
- Fate
- Scrapped in Inverkeithing in 1958 (1958)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 21,550 long tons (21,896 t)
- Length
- 167.49 m (549.5 ft)
- Beam
- 21.4 m (70.2 ft)
- Draught
- 8.23 m (27 ft)
- Speed
- 16 knots (29.6 km/h, 18.4 mph)
- Main gun
- 20 mm (0.8 in)
HMS Montclare was a cruiser built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number F85. She was built by John Brown & co, Clydebank. Launched on 18 December 1921, she entered service in August 1939.
She displaced 21,550 long tons. She measured 167.5 m (550 ft) long with a beam of 21.4 m (70 ft). Her designed speed was 16 knots.
Her main battery was 19 20 mm (0.8 in) guns.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in October 1954.
She was broken up for scrap in 1958.
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 × screws
- 6 × steam turbines
- Built with double reduction gearing.
- 1929 single reduction gearing
- Power
- as built: 2,476 NHP
- 1929: 2,524 NHP
- Armament
- As submarine depot ship:
- 4 × 4-inch AA guns
- 42 × 2-pounder AA guns
- 19 × 20 mm AA guns
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Montclare on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: © IWM FL 8738, https://www.iwm.org.uk/corporate/policies/non-commercial-licence — https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205120717 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons