HMS Partridge (G30)
Service
- as HMS Partridge? — 18 December 19421,204 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Partridge
- Pennant / hull number
- G30
- Builder
- Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan
- Ordered
- 2 October 1939
- Laid down
- 3 June 1940
- Launched
- 5 August 1941
- Fate
- Torpedoed and sunk, 18 December 1942
By torpedo (1942) - Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,550 long tons (1,575 t)
- Length
- 105.16 m (345 ft) OA
- Beam
- 10.67 m (35 ft)
- Draught
- 2.74 m (9 ft)
- Speed
- 36.8 knots (68.1 km/h, 42.3 mph)
- Range
- 3,850 nmi (7,130 km)
- Complement
- 228
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS Partridge was a P-class destroyer in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number G30. Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan laid her keel on 3 June 1940. She was launched on 5 August 1941.
Her class ran to eight ships. The class followed the L and M-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Q and R-class destroyer.
She displaced 1,550 long tons. She measured 105.2 m (345 ft) long with a beam of 10.7 m (35 ft). Her designed speed was 36.8 knots, and she carried a complement of 228. Her main battery was of 102 mm (4.0 in) calibre.
40,000 shp drove two shafts.
She was in commission for 1,204 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 18 December 1942 by torpedo, at 35°50′N 1°35′W. The wreck survives.
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; Parsons geared steam turbines
- Power
- 40000 shp
- 2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- Armament
- 5 × single QF 4 in Mk.V (102 mm) guns
- 1 × quadruple QF 2-pdr Mk.VIII AA guns
- 4 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
- 1 × quadruple 21-inch torpedo tubes
- 4 × throwers and 2 × racks for 70 depth charges
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Partridge (G30) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//18/media-18590/large.jpg This photograph FL 1961 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons