Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
Royal Navy — Destroyer 1919

HMS Sturdy (1919)

S-class destroyer (1917) destroyer

HMS Sturdy (1919)
Andy Dingley (scanner) — Scan from Burgess, Malcolm William (1936) Warships To-day , London : Oxford University Press, pp. facing page. 49 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate — 1919 Two photographic studies of HMS Sturdy . In the lower picture she is shown battling her way through a gale. Photo: Chrles E. Brown

Service

  1. Royal Navy as Sturdy8 October 1919 — 30 October 1940423 days of the war
S-class destroyer (1917) destroyer Particulars
Name
HMS Sturdy
Pennant / hull number
1919
Builder
Scotts, Greenock
Ordered
June 1917
Laid down
April 1918
Launched
26 June 1919
Commissioned
8 October 1919
Fate
Grounded off the island Tiree
Status
Wreck

Specifications

Displacement, standard
1,000 long tons (1,016 t)
Displacement, full load
1,220 long tons (1,240 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 Sturdy was a S-class destroyer (1917) destroyer in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number 1919. Scotts, Greenock laid her keel in April 1918. She entered service on 8 October 1919, having been launched on 26 June 1919.

She was one of 111 ships of her class.

Displacement was 1,000 long tons standard and 1,220 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.

Her machinery developed 27,000 shp through two shafts.

She was in commission for 423 days of the Second World War.

She was wrecked.

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 geared Brown-Curtis steam turbines, 2 shafts
Power
  • 3 Yarrow boilers, 27000 shp
Armament
  • 3 × single QF 4 in guns
  • 1 × single 2-pdr 40 mm AA gun
  • 2 × twin 21 in torpedo tubes
  • 3 × depth charge chutes

Sister ships

86 more in the class

Sources

  • Facts harvested from HMS Sturdy (1919) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
  • Photograph: Andy Dingley (scanner) — Scan from Burgess, Malcolm William (1936) Warships To-day , London : Oxford University Press, pp. facing page. 49 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons