HMS Onslow (G17)
Service
- as Onslow8 October 1941 — April 19471,425 days of the war
- as PNS Tippu Sultan1949 — 1979
- Name
- HMS Onslow
- Pennant / hull number
- G17
- Builder
- John Brown & Company, Clydebank
- Ordered
- 3 September 1939
- Laid down
- 1 July 1940
- Launched
- 31 March 1941
- Commissioned
- 8 October 1941
- Decommissioned
- April 1947
- Fate
- Scrapped, 1980 (1980)
- 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
- 119 mm (4.7 in)
HMS Onslow was a O-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number G17. John Brown & Company, Clydebank laid her keel on 1 July 1940. She entered service on 8 October 1941, having been launched on 31 March 1941.
Eight ships of the class were built. 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 119 mm (4.7 in) calibre.
Her machinery developed 40,000 shp.
She served with the Royal Navy as Onslow until April 1947. She was in commission for 1,425 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in April 1947.
She was broken up for scrap in 1980.
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
- 4 × single QF 4.7 in guns
- 1 × 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
- 4 × throwers and 2 × racks for 70 depth charges
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Onslow (G17) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 2837 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons