HMS Talybont
Type III Hunt-class escort destroyer
- Displacement
- 1,050 long tons (1,067 t)
- Length
- 85.34 m (280 ft)
- Beam
- 9.45 m (31 ft)
- Speed
- 27 knots (50 km/h, 31.1 mph)
- Complement
- 168
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
Service
- as HMS Talybont19 May 1943 — 1961837 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Talybont
- Pennant / hull number
- L18
- Builder
- J. Samuel White, Cowes
- Ordered
- 23 August 1940
- Laid down
- 28 November 1941
- Launched
- 3 February 1943
- Commissioned
- 19 May 1943
- Fate
- Sold for scrap 1961 (1961)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,050 long tons (1,067 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,490 long tons (1,514 t)
- Length
- 85.34 m (280 ft) OA
- Beam
- 9.45 m (31 ft)
- Draught
- 2.13 m (7 ft)
- Speed
- 27 knots (50 km/h, 31.1 mph)
- Range
- 3,700 nmi (6,852 km)
- Complement
- 168
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS Talybont was a Type III Hunt-class escort destroyer in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number L18. J. Samuel White, Cowes laid her keel on 28 November 1941. She entered service on 19 May 1943, having been launched on 3 February 1943.
She displaced 1,050 long tons standard and 1,490 long tons at full load. 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 of 102 mm (4.0 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 837 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in 1961.
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 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 2 shaft Parsons geared turbines, 19000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × QF 4 in Mark XVI guns on twin mounts Mk. XIX
- 5 × QF 2 pdr Mk. VIII (1 × quad mount and 1 × single bow chaser mount)
- 3 × 20 mm Oerlikons
- 2 × 21 in torpedo tubes
- 70 depth charges, 4 throwers, 2 racks
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Talybont on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.