HMS Relentless (H85)
Service
- as HMS Relentless30 November 1942 — November 19471,009 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Relentless
- Pennant / hull number
- H85
- Builder
- John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Yard No.590
- Ordered
- May 1941
- Laid down
- 20 June 1941
- Launched
- 15 July 1942
- Commissioned
- 30 November 1942
- Fate
- Scrapped 1971 (1971)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications — As R class destroyer
- Displacement, standard
- 1,705 long tons (1,732 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 2,425 long tons (2,464 t)
- Length
- 109.19 m (358.2 ft) OA
- Beam
- 10.9 m (35.8 ft)
- Draught
- 2.9 m (9.5 ft)
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Range
- 4,675 nmi (8,658 km)
- Complement
- 176
- Main gun
- 40 mm (1.6 in)
HMS Relentless was a R-class destroyer, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number H85. John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Yard No.590 laid her keel on 20 June 1941. Launched on 15 July 1942, she entered service on 30 November 1942.
Nine ships of the class were built.
Displacement was 1,705 long tons standard and 2,425 long tons at full load. She measured 109.2 m (358 ft) long with a beam of 10.9 m (36 ft). Her designed speed was 36 knots, and she carried a complement of 176. Her main battery was of 40 mm (1.6 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 1,009 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in 1971.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
This vessel is recorded in 2 configurations. Wartime refits changed armament and complement substantially, so each is kept separately rather than averaged into one set of figures. The figures above are as built.
As R class destroyer
- Propulsion
- 2 x Admiralty 3-drum water-tube boilers, Parsons geared steam turbines, 40000 shp on 2 shafts
- Armament
- 4 × QF 4.7-inch (120-mm) Mk.IX guns single mounts CP Mk.XVIII
- 4 × QF 2 pdr Mk.VIII (40 mm L/39), quad mount Mk.VII
- 2 × 2, 4 × 1 QF 20 mm Oerlikon, single mount P Mk.III
- 8 (2x4) tubes for 21 inch torpedoes Mk.IX
- 4 × throwers & 2 x racks, 70 depth charges
As Type 15 frigate
- Displacement, standard
- 2,300 long tons (2,337 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 2,700 long tons (2,743 t)
- Length
- 109.12 m (358 ft) OA
- Beam
- 11.51 m (37.8 ft)
- Draught
- 4.42 m (14.5 ft)
- Speed
- 31 knots (57.4 km/h, 35.7 mph)
- Range
- 4,675 nmi (8,658 km)
- Complement
- 174
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
- Propulsion
- 2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- steam turbines on 2 shafts
- 40,000 shp
- Armament
- 1 × twin 4 in gun Mark 19
- 1 × twin 40mm Bofors Mk.5
- 2 × Limbo Mark 10 A/S mortar
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Relentless (H85) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 1968 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons