HMS Oribi
Service
- as Oribi5 July 1941 — 1 January 19461,520 days of the war
- as Gayret1946 — 1965
- Name
- HMS Oribi
- Builder
- Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan
- Ordered
- 3 September 1939
- Laid down
- 15 January 1940
- Launched
- 14 January 1941
- Commissioned
- 5 July 1941
- Decommissioned
- 1 January 1946
- Fate
- Scrapped 1965 (1965)
- 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 Oribi was a O-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan laid her keel on 15 January 1940. Launched on 14 January 1941, she entered service on 5 July 1941.
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 119 mm (4.7 in) calibre.
Her machinery developed 40,000 shp.
She served with the Royal Navy as Oribi until 1 January 1946. She then passed to the Turkish Navy, serving as Gayret from 1946. She was in commission for 1,520 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 1 January 1946.
She was broken up for scrap in 1965.
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 Oribi on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 17118 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons