HMS Obedient (G48)
Service
- as Obedient30 October 1942 — 19621,040 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Obedient
- Pennant / hull number
- G48
- Builder
- William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton
- Ordered
- 3 September 1939
- Laid down
- 22 May 1940
- Launched
- 30 April 1942
- Commissioned
- 30 October 1942
- Fate
- Scrapped 1962 (1962)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,610 long tons (1,636 t)
- Length
- 105.16 m (345 ft) OA
- Beam
- 10.67 m (35 ft)
- Draught
- 3.96 m (13 ft)
- Speed
- 37 knots (68.5 km/h, 42.6 mph)
- Range
- 3,850 nmi (7,130 km)
- Complement
- 176
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS Obedient was a O-class destroyer, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number G48. William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton laid her keel on 22 May 1940. Launched on 30 April 1942, she entered service on 30 October 1942.
She was one of eight ships of her class. The class followed the Ersatz Yorck-class battlecruiser.
She displaced 1,610 long tons. She measured 105.2 m (345 ft) long with a beam of 10.7 m (35 ft). Her designed speed was 37 knots, and she carried a complement of 176. Her main battery was of 102 mm (4.0 in) calibre.
Her machinery developed 40,000 shp.
She was in commission for 1,040 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in 1962.
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
- 2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 40000 shp
- Armament
- 5 × single QF 4 in AA gun
- 1 × quad 2 pdr (40 mm) AA gun
- 4 × single 20 mm AA guns
- 1 × quadruple 21 in torpedo tubes
- 2 × depth charges throwers
- 60 × mines
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Obedient (G48) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//19/media-19151/large.jpg This photograph FL 9570 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons