Royal Navy — Destroyer escort
L81
HMS Stork (L81)
Bittern-class sloop sloop
Service
- as HMS Stork10 September 1936 — 19582,193 days of the war
Bittern-class sloop sloop
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Stork
- Pennant / hull number
- L81
- Builder
- William Denny & Brothers, Dumbarton
- Ordered
- 1 May 1935
- Laid down
- 19 June 1935
- Launched
- 21 April 1936
- Commissioned
- 10 September 1936
- Fate
- Broken up at Troon 1958 (1958)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,190 long tons (1,209 t)
- Length
- 81.08 m (266 ft)
- Beam
- 11.28 m (37 ft)
- Speed
- 18.8 knots (34.7 km/h, 21.6 mph)
- Complement
- 125
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS Stork was a destroyer escort of the Bittern-class sloop sloop built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number L81. William Denny & Brothers, Dumbarton laid her keel on 19 June 1935. Launched on 21 April 1936, she entered service on 10 September 1936.
She displaced 1,190 long tons. She measured 81.1 m (266 ft) long with a beam of 11.3 m (37 ft). Her designed speed was 18.8 knots, and she carried a complement of 125.
Her main battery was six 102 mm (4 in) guns.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in 1958.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Geared steam turbines on two shafts
- 3,300 hp
- Armament
- 6 × 4 in DP guns
- 4 × 0.5 in AA machine guns
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Stork (L81) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 22540 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons