HMS Roebuck (H95)
Service
- as HMS Roebuck10 June 1943 — 1962815 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Roebuck
- Pennant / hull number
- H95
- Builder
- Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Co.
- Ordered
- May 1940
- Laid down
- 19 June 1941
- Launched
- 10 December 1942
- Commissioned
- 10 June 1943
- Decommissioned
- 1962
- Fate
- Scrapped, 1968 (1968)
- 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 Roebuck was a R-class destroyer in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number H95. Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. laid her keel on 19 June 1941. She entered service on 10 June 1943, having been launched on 10 December 1942.
Nine ships of the class were built.
She displaced 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 815 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in 1962.
She was broken up for scrap in 1968.
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 Roebuck (H95) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 18252 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons