HMS Thanet

S-class destroyer

Displacement: 1,075 long tons (1,092 t)
Length: 84.12 m (276 ft)
Beam: 7.92 m (26 ft)
Speed: 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
Complement: 90
Main gun: 102 mm (4 in)

Service

Royal Navy as HMS Thanet3 August 1919 — 27 January 1942879 days of the war

S-class destroyer Particulars

Name: HMS Thanet
Pennant / hull number: H29
Builder: Hawthorn Leslie & Company, Hebburn
Ordered: July 1917
Laid down: 13 December 1917
Launched: 5 November 1918
Commissioned: 3 August 1919
Fate: Sunk on 27 January 1942 (1942)
Status: Wreck

Specifications

Displacement, standard: 1,075 long tons (1,092 t)
Length: 84.12 m (276 ft) OA
Beam: 7.92 m (26 ft)
Draught: 3.05 m (10 ft)
Speed: 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
Complement: 90
Main gun: 102 mm (4 in)

HMS Thanet was a S-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number H29. Hawthorn Leslie & Company, Hebburn laid her keel on 13 December 1917. She entered service on 3 August 1919, having been launched on 5 November 1918.

Her class ran to 111 ships.

Displacement was 1,075 long tons. She measured 84.1 m (276 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.

She was in commission for 879 days of the Second World War.

She was sunk on 27 January 1942. The wreck survives.

Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.

Armament and machinery

Propulsion: Brown-Curtis, steam turbines, 2 shafts, 27,000 shp
Armament: 3 × QF 4 in Mark IV guns, mount P Mk. IX
1 × QF 2 pdr Mark II "pom-pom"
4 × Lewis Guns
2 × twin tubes for 21 in torpedoes
2 × fixed 14 in tubes for torpedoes (later removed)

Sister ships

86 more in the class

Sources

Facts harvested from HMS Thanet on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.