Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
Hellenic Navy — Destroyer L69

HMS Tanatside

Hunt-class destroyer

HMS Tanatside
Royal Navy official photographer — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//19/media-19920/large.jpg This photograph FL 19666 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate — L69 HMS Tanatside at a buoy

Service

  1. Royal Navy as HMS TanatsideAugust 1942 — 19461,128 days of the war
  2. Hellenic Navy as Adrias? — August 19622,193 days of the war
Hunt-class destroyer Particulars
Name
HMS Tanatside
Pennant / hull number
L69
Builder
Yarrow Shipbuilders
Ordered
23 August 1940
Laid down
23 June 1941
Launched
30 April 1942
Commissioned
August 1942
Fate
Returned to the Royal Navy in August 1962 (1962)
Status
Unknown

Specifications

Displacement, standard
1,050 long tons (1,067 t)
Displacement, full load
1,435 long tons (1,458 t)
Length
85.3 m (279.9 ft) OA
Beam
10.16 m (33.3 ft)
Draught
3.51 m (11.5 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 Tanatside was a Hunt-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number L69. Yarrow Shipbuilders laid her keel on 23 June 1941. Launched on 30 April 1942, she entered service in August 1942.

24 ships of the class were built.

Displacement was 1,050 long tons standard and 1,435 long tons at full load. She measured 85.3 m (280 ft) long with a beam of 10.2 m (33 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 served with the Royal Navy as HMS Tanatside until 1946. She then passed to the Hellenic Navy, serving as Adrias. She was in commission for 3,321 days of the Second World War.

She was transferred in August 1962.

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, 19,000 shp
Armament
  • 4 × QF 4 in Mark XVI guns on twin mounts Mk. XIX
  • 4 × QF 2 pdr Mk. VIII on quad mount MK.VII
  • 2 × 20 mm Oerlikons on single mounts P Mk. III
  • 2 × 21 in torpedo tubes
  • 110 depth charges, 4 throwers, 3 racks

Sister ships

Sources

  • Facts harvested from HMS Tanatside on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
  • Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//19/media-19920/large.jpg This photograph FL 19666 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons