HMS Teazer (R23)
Service
- as HMS Teazer13 September 1943 — 7 August 1965720 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Teazer
- Pennant / hull number
- R23
- Builder
- Cammell Laird
- Ordered
- March 1941
- Laid down
- 20 October 1941
- Launched
- 7 January 1943
- Commissioned
- 13 September 1943
- Fate
- Scrapped 7 August 1965 (1965)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications — As T–class
- Displacement, standard
- 1,710 long tons (1,737 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 2,505 long tons (2,545 t)
- Length
- 110.34 m (362 ft) OA
- Beam
- 10.67 m (35 ft)
- Draught
- 4.27 m (14 ft)
- Speed
- 36.8 knots (68.1 km/h, 42.3 mph)
- Complement
- 180
- Main gun
- 40 mm (1.6 in)
HMS Teazer was a T-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number R23. Cammell Laird laid her keel on 20 October 1941. She entered service on 13 September 1943, having been launched on 7 January 1943.
Her class ran to nine ships. The class followed the Q and R-class destroyer and was succeeded by the U and V-class destroyer.
She displaced 1,710 long tons standard and 2,505 long tons at full load. She measured 110.3 m (362 ft) long with a beam of 10.7 m (35 ft). Her designed speed was 36.8 knots, and she carried a complement of 180.
Her main battery was two 40 mm (1.6 in) guns.
She was in commission for 720 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap on 7 August 1965.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
This vessel is recorded in 2 configurations. Wartime refits changed armament and complement substantially, so each is kept separately rather than averaged into one set of figures. The figures above are as built.
As T–class
- Propulsion
- 2 shaft Parsons geared turbines
- 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 40000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × 4.7-inch (120-mm) QF Mk IX guns (4×1)
- 2 × 40mm Bofors (1x2)
- 8 × 20 mm guns anti-aircraft guns
- 8 × 21 inch torpedo tubes (2×4)
As Type 16
- Displacement, standard
- 1,800 long tons (1,829 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 2,300 long tons (2,337 t)
- Length
- 110.34 m (362 ft) OA
- Beam
- 11.28 m (37 ft)
- Draught
- 4.27 m (14 ft)
- Speed
- 32 knots (59.3 km/h, 36.8 mph)
- Complement
- 175
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
- Propulsion
- 2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- Steam turbines, 40,000 shp
- 2 shafts
- Armament
- 1 × twin 4 in gun Mark 19
- 1 × twin 40 mm Bofors gun Mk.5
- 5 × single 40 mm Bofors gun Mk.9
- 2 × Squid A/S mortar
- 1 × quad 21 in tubes for Mk.9 torpedoes
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Teazer (R23) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Stewart Bale Ltd, Liverpool. Official photograph. — This photograph FL 9520 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons