Royal Navy — Destroyer
HMS Southwold
Type II Hunt-class destroyer
Service
- as HMS Southwold9 October 1941 — 24 March 1942166 days of the war
Type II Hunt-class destroyer
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Southwold
- Builder
- J. Samuel White
- Ordered
- 20 December 1939
- Laid down
- 18 June 1940
- Launched
- 29 May 1941
- Commissioned
- 9 October 1941
- Fate
- Hit a mine and sunk on 24 March 1942
By mine (1942) - Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,050 long tons (1,067 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,430 long tons (1,453 t)
- Length
- 85.3 m (279.9 ft) OA
- Beam
- 9.6 m (31.5 ft)
- Draught
- 2.51 m (8.2 ft)
- Speed
- 27 knots (50 km/h, 31.1 mph)
- Range
- 3,600 nmi (6,667 km)
- Complement
- 164
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS Southwold was a Type II Hunt-class destroyer in service with the Royal Navy. J. Samuel White laid her keel on 18 June 1940. Launched on 29 May 1941, she entered service on 9 October 1941.
She displaced 1,050 long tons standard and 1,430 long tons at full load. She measured 85.3 m (280 ft) long with a beam of 9.6 m (31 ft). Her designed speed was 27 knots, and she carried a complement of 164. Her main battery was of 102 mm (4.0 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 166 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 24 March 1942 by mine, at 35°53′N 14°35′E. 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 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 2 shaft Parsons geared turbines, 19000 shp
- Armament
- 6 × QF 4 in Mark XVI guns on twin mounts Mk. XIX
- 4 × QF 2 pdr Mk. VIII on quad mount MK.VII
- 2 × 20 mm Oerlikons on single mounts P Mk. III
- 110 depth charges, 2 throwers, 3 racks
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Southwold on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Hokin50 — Own work — CC BY-SA 3.0 — Wikimedia Commons