Royal Navy — Destroyer
HMS Stronghold
Service
- as HMS Stronghold? — 2 March 1942913 days of the war
S-class destroyer (1917) destroyer
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Stronghold
- Builder
- Scotts, Greenock
- Ordered
- March 1918
- Laid down
- March 1918
- Launched
- 6 May 1919
- Fate
- Sunk in battle
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,075 long tons (1,092 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,221 long tons (1,241 t)
- Length
- 80.77 m (265 ft)
- Beam
- 7.92 m (26 ft)
- Draught
- 2.74 m (9 ft)
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Range
- 2,750 nmi (5,093 km)
- Complement
- 90
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS Stronghold was a S-class destroyer (1917) destroyer, operated by the Royal Navy. Scotts, Greenock laid her keel in March 1918. She was launched on 6 May 1919.
Her class ran to 111 ships.
She displaced 1,075 long tons standard and 1,221 long tons at full load. She measured 80.8 m (265 ft) long with a beam of 7.9 m (26 ft). Her designed speed was 36 knots, and she carried a complement of 90. Her main battery was of 102 mm (4.0 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 913 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk. 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
- 3 Yarrow boilers
- 2 geared Parsons steam turbines, 27,000 shp
- Armament
- 3 × QF 4 in Mark IV guns, mounting P Mk. IX
- 1 × single 2-pounder (40-mm) "pom-pom" Mk. II anti-aircraft gun
- 4 × 21 in torpedo tubes (2×2)
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 Saumarez (G12)
- 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
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Stronghold on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: photographer not identified — This photograph SP 2497 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 1900-01) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons