Royal Navy — Destroyer
G12
HMS Saumarez (G12)
Service
- as HMS Saumarez1 July 1943 — 22 October 1946794 days of the war
S-class destroyer
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Saumarez
- Pennant / hull number
- G12
- Namesake
- James Saumarez, 1st Baron de Saumarez
- Builder
- Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn, Newcastle upon Tyne
- Ordered
- January 1941
- Launched
- 20 November 1942
- Commissioned
- 1 July 1943
- Fate
- Heavily damaged by mine on 22 October 1946
Written off as a constructive total loss and sold on 8 September 1950 for scrapping
Broken up in Charlestown, Fife in October 1950. (1946) - Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,730 long tons (1,758 t)
- Length
- 110.64 m (363 ft)
- Beam
- 10.67 m (35 ft)
- Draught
- 4.27 m (14 ft)
- Speed
- 36.8 knots (68.1 km/h, 42.3 mph)
- Complement
- 225
- Main gun
- 40 mm (1.6 in)
HMS Saumarez was a S-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number G12. The ship was named after James Saumarez. She was built by Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn, Newcastle upon Tyne. She entered service on 1 July 1943, having been launched on 20 November 1942.
She was one of 111 ships of her class.
She displaced 1,730 long tons. She measured 110.6 m (363 ft) long with a beam of 10.7 m (35 ft). Her designed speed was 36.8 knots, and she carried a complement of 225.
Her main battery was two 40 mm (1.6 in) guns.
She was in commission for 794 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap on 22 October 1946.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Two sets of Parsons geared turbines
- 40000 hp
- Armament
- 4 × 4.7-inch (120-mm) QF Mk IX guns (4×1)
- 2 × 40mm Bofors (1x2)
- 8 × 20 mm guns anti-aircraft guns
- 8 × 21 inch torpedo tubes (2×4)
Sister ships
- HMS P222
- HMS P551
- HMS Sabre (H18)
- HMS Safari
- HMS Saga
- HMS Sahib
- HMS Saladin
- HMS Salmon (N65)
- HMS Saracen (P247)
- HMS Sardonyx
- HMS Satyr (P214)
- HMS Sceptre (P215)
- HMS Scorcher
- HMS Scorpion (G72)
- HMS Scotsman (P243)
- HMS Scourge (G01)
- HMS Scout (1918)
- HMS Scythian
- HMS Sea Devil
- HMS Sea Nymph (P223)
- HMS Sea Rover
- HMS Sea Scout
- HMS Seadog
- HMS Seahorse (98S)
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Saumarez (G12) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 18712 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) ; current image source [1] — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons