HMS Musketeer (G86)
Service
- as HMS Musketeer? — 3 September 19552,193 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Musketeer
- Pennant / hull number
- G86
- Builder
- Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan
- Ordered
- 7 July 1939
- Laid down
- 7 December 1939
- Launched
- 2 December 1941
- Fate
- Sold for scrap 3 September 1955 (1955)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,920 long tons (1,951 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 2,725 long tons (2,769 t)
- Length
- 110.34 m (362 ft) OA
- Beam
- 11.28 m (37 ft)
- Draught
- 4.27 m (14 ft)
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Range
- 5,500 nmi (10,186 km)
- Complement
- 190
- Main gun
- 119 mm (4.7 in)
HMS Musketeer was a M-class destroyer in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number G86. Her keel was laid at Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan on 7 December 1939. She was launched on 2 December 1941.
Seven ships of the class were built. The class followed the None and was succeeded by the Quebec-class submarine.
Displacement was 1,920 long tons standard and 2,725 long tons at full load. She measured 110.3 m (362 ft) long with a beam of 11.3 m (37 ft). Her designed speed was 36 knots, and she carried a complement of 190.
Her main battery was six 119 mm (4.7 in) guns in three twin mountings. Her machinery developed 48,000 shp.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap on 3 September 1955.
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 × shafts
- 2 × geared steam turbines
- Power
- 48000 shp
- 2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- Armament
- 3 × twin 4.7 in Mk XI dual-purpose guns
- 1 × single QF 4 in Mk V anti-aircraft gun
- 1 × quadruple QF 2-pdr (40 mm) Mk VIII AA guns
- 2 × single Oerlikon 20 mm AA guns
- 2 × quadruple, 2 × twin 0.5 in (12.7 mm) Vickers Mark III anti-aircraft machineguns
- 1 × quadruple 21 in torpedo tubes
- 42 × depth charges, 2 × racks, 2 × throwers
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Musketeer (G86) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//30/media-30526/large.jpg This photograph A 21887 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons