HMS Rocket (H92)
Service
- as HMS Rocket4 August 1943 — 1967760 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Rocket
- Pennant / hull number
- H92
- Builder
- Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock
- Ordered
- May 1940
- Laid down
- 14 March 1941
- Launched
- 28 October 1942
- Commissioned
- 4 August 1943
- Fate
- Sold for scrapping in 1967 (1967)
- 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 Rocket was a R-class destroyer, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number H92. Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock laid her keel on 14 March 1941. She entered service on 4 August 1943, having been launched on 28 October 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 760 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in 1967.
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 Rocket (H92) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons