HMS Stevenstone
Service
- as Stevenstone18 March 1943 — 1959899 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Stevenstone
- Pennant / hull number
- L16
- Builder
- J. Samuel White, East Cowes, Isle of Wight
- Ordered
- 23 August 1940
- Laid down
- 2 September 1941
- Launched
- 23 November 1942
- Commissioned
- 18 March 1943
- Fate
- Scrapped, 1959 (1959)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,050 long tons (1,067 t)
- Length
- 85.34 m (280 ft) OA
- Beam
- 9.45 m (31 ft)
- Draught
- 3.66 m (12 ft)
- Speed
- 27 knots (50 km/h, 31.1 mph)
- Range
- 2,350 nmi (4,352 km)
- Complement
- 168
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS Stevenstone was a Hunt-class destroyer in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number L16. Her keel was laid at J. Samuel White, East Cowes, Isle of Wight on 2 September 1941. Launched on 23 November 1942, she entered service on 18 March 1943.
She was one of 24 ships of her class.
She displaced 1,050 long tons. She measured 85.3 m (280 ft) long with a beam of 9.4 m (31 ft). Her designed speed was 27 knots, and she carried a complement of 168.
Her main battery was four 102 mm (4 in) guns in two twin mountings. Her machinery developed 19,000 shp through two shafts.
She was in commission for 899 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in 1959.
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 shafts; geared steam turbines
- Power
- 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 19000 shp
- Armament
- 2 × twin 4 in guns
- 1 × quadruple 2 pdr (40 mm) AA guns
- 2 × single 20 mm Oerlikon AA guns
- 1 × twin 21 in torpedo tubes
- 3 × depth charge chutes, 4 × throwers for 110 depth charges
Sister ships
- HMS Blankney
- HMS Bleasdale
- HMS Derwent (L83)
- HMS Eridge (L68)
- HMS Exmoor (L08)
- HMS Exmoor (L61)
- HMS Goathland
- HMS Hambledon (L37)
- HMS Haydon
- HMS Heythrop (L85)
- HMS Hursley
- HMS Hurworth (L28)
- HMS Lauderdale
- HMS Liddesdale
- HMS Melbreak
- HMS Penylan
- HMS Puckeridge
- HMS Quorn (L66)
- HMS Rockwood
- HMS Tanatside
- HMS Tynedale
- HMS Wensleydale
- ORP Ślązak (L26)
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Stevenstone on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//18/media-18667/large.jpg This photograph FL 3169 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons