Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
Royal Norwegian Navy — Destroyer I15

HMS St. Albans (I15)

Wickes-class destroyer

HMS St. Albans (I15)
Photographer not identified. — Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons. Original uploader was ScottyBoy900Q at en.wikipedia — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate — I15 American Wickes class destroyer USS Thomas (DD-182) . She was transferred in 1940 to the Royal Navy as HMS St Albans (I15) , as a Town class destroyer, but spent most of the war in the exiled Norwegian navy as HNoMS St Albans , before transfer to the Soviet Navy as Dostoyny .

Service

  1. United States Navy as USS Thomas25 April 1919 — 23 September 1940388 days of the war
  2. Royal Navy as HMS St Albans23 September 1940 — April 1941217 days of the war
  3. Royal Norwegian Navy as HNoMS St Albans14 April 1941 — 4 May 19441,116 days of the war
  4. Soviet Navy as Dostoyny (Worthy)16 July 1944 — 28 February 1949413 days of the war
Full service history About 1,195 words
Wickes-class destroyer Particulars
Name
HMS St. Albans
Pennant / hull number
I15
Namesake
Clarence Crase Thomas
Builder
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
Laid down
23 March 1918
Launched
4 July 1918
Commissioned
25 April 1919
Decommissioned
30 June 1922
Recommissioned
17 June 1940
Struck
8 January 1941
Fate
Transferred to UK for scrapping, 28 February 1949 (1949)
Status
Unknown

Specifications

Displacement, standard
1,213 long tons (1,232 t)
Length
95.71 m (314 ft)
Beam
9.45 m (31 ft)
Draught
2.74 m (9 ft)
Speed
35 knots (64.8 km/h, 40.3 mph)
Complement
101
Main gun
102 mm (4 in)

(Destroyer No. 182: dp. 1,213; 1. 314'4-"; b. 30'11-"; dr. 9'4" (mean) ; s. 33.67 k.; cpl. 122; a. 4 4", 1 3", 1221"tt; cl. Wickes )

Clarence Crase Thomas, born on 26 December 1886 in Grass Valley, Calif., was appointed midshipman on 7 July 1904 and graduated from the United States Naval Academy on 5 June 1908. After service in armored cruiser Maryland and gunboat Yorktown, he was commissioned ensign on 29 June 1910.

In the next few years, Thomas served in Denver, Cleveland, and West Virginia. Appointed lieutenant (jg.) on 26 June 1913, he was detached from West Vir ginia in the summer of 1914 to attend a post-graduate course in steam engineering at the Naval Academy. He attended Columbia University in late 1915 and, on 24 June 1916, reported on board Florida as her electrical officer.

Continue to the full service history About 1,195 words

From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Thomas I (Destroyer No. 182)). A work of the United States Government, in the public domain.

Armament and machinery

Armament and machinery
Armament
  • Initial
  • 4 × 4 in/50 guns
  • 1 x 3 in/23 gun
  • 12 x 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
  • 1941–44
  • 3 × 4 in guns
  • 2 x 3 in guns
  • 4 DC throwers

Sister ships

79 more in the class

Sources

  • Facts harvested from HMS St. Albans (I15) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
  • Service history reproduced verbatim from Thomas I (Destroyer No. 182) , Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships — public domain, a work of the United States Government.
  • Photograph: Photographer not identified. — Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons. Original uploader was ScottyBoy900Q at en.wikipedia — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons