HMS Opportune (G80)
Service
- as Opportune14 August 1942 — 25 November 19551,115 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Opportune
- Pennant / hull number
- G80
- Ordered
- 3 September 1939
- Laid down
- 28 March 1940
- Launched
- 21 February 1942
- Commissioned
- 14 August 1942
- Fate
- Scrapped on 25 November 1955 (1955)
- 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 Opportune was a O-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number G80. Her keel was laid on 28 March 1940. Launched on 21 February 1942, she entered service on 14 August 1942.
She was one of eight ships of her class. The class followed the Ersatz Yorck-class battlecruiser.
Displacement was 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 1,115 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap on 25 November 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
- 2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 40000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × single QF 4 in AA gun
- 1 × quad 2 pdr (40 mm) AA gun
- 4 × single 20 mm AA guns
- 2 × quadruple 21 in torpedo tubes
- 2 × depth charges throwers
- 60 × mines
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Opportune (G80) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Hampton, J A (Lt), Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph A 22473 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 4700-01) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons