HMS Tuscan (R56)
Service
- as HMS Tuscan11 March 1943 — 26 May 1966906 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Tuscan
- Pennant / hull number
- R56
- Builder
- Swan Hunter
- Ordered
- 14 March 1941
- Laid down
- 6 September 1941
- Launched
- 28 May 1942
- Commissioned
- 11 March 1943
- Fate
- Scrapped 26 May 1966 (1966)
- 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 Tuscan was a T-class destroyer, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number R56. Swan Hunter laid her keel on 6 September 1941. Launched on 28 May 1942, she entered service on 11 March 1943.
Nine ships of the class were built. The class followed the Q and R-class destroyer and was succeeded by the U and V-class destroyer.
Displacement was 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 906 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap on 26 May 1966.
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 Tuscan (R56) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Allan C. Green 1878 - 1954 — State Library of Victoria [1] (blemishes removed) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons