HMS Termagant (R89)
Service
- as HMS Termagant8 October 1943 — 5 November 1965695 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Termagant
- Pennant / hull number
- R89
- Builder
- William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton
- Ordered
- 14 March 1941
- Laid down
- 25 November 1941
- Launched
- 22 March 1943
- Commissioned
- 8 October 1943
- Fate
- Arrived for scrapping on 5 November 1965 (1965)
- Status
- Unknown
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 Termagant was a T-class destroyer in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number R89. William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton laid her keel on 25 November 1941. Launched on 22 March 1943, she entered service on 8 October 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 695 days of the Second World War.
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 Termagant (R89) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Ralston W (of Glasgow) — This photograph FL 9373 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons