HMS Undaunted (R53)
Service
- as HMS Undaunted3 March 1944 — 1974548 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Undaunted
- Pennant / hull number
- R53
- Builder
- Cammell Laird
- Laid down
- 8 September 1942
- Launched
- 19 July 1943
- Commissioned
- 3 March 1944
- Decommissioned
- 1974
- Fate
- Sunk as target November 1978 (1978)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications — U class destroyer
- Displacement, standard
- 1,777 long tons (1,806 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 2,058 long tons (2,091 t)
- Length
- 110.64 m (363 ft)
- Beam
- 10.67 m (35 ft)
- Draught
- 3.05 m (10 ft)
- Speed
- 37 knots (68.5 km/h, 42.6 mph)
- Range
- 4,860 nmi (9,001 km)
- Complement
- 180
- Main gun
- 40 mm (1.6 in)
HMS Undaunted was a U-class destroyer, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number R53. Her keel was laid at Cammell Laird on 8 September 1942. She entered service on 3 March 1944, having been launched on 19 July 1943.
Four ships of the class were built. The class followed the S and T-class destroyer and was succeeded by the W and Z-class destroyer.
Displacement was 1,777 long tons standard and 2,058 long tons at full load. She measured 110.6 m (363 ft) long with a beam of 10.7 m (35 ft). Her designed speed was 37 knots, and she carried a complement of 180. Her main battery was of 40 mm (1.6 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 548 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in 1974.
She was expended as a target in November 1978. The wreck survives.
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.
U class destroyer
- Propulsion
- 2 × Admiralty 3-drum water-tube boilers
- Geared steam turbines, 40000 shp
- 2 shafts
- Armament
- Original configuration :
- 4 × QF 4.7-inch (120-mm) Mk XII guns in single mountings CP Mk.XXII
- 2 × QF 40 mm Bofors guns in twin mount Mk.IV
- 6 × QF 20 mm Oerlikon guns; 2 × twin mounts Mk.V, 2 × single mounts Mk.III
- 2 × quadruple tubes for 21 in torpedo Mk.IX
Type 15 frigate
- Displacement, standard
- 2,300 long tons (2,337 t)
- Length
- 109.12 m (358 ft) OA
- Beam
- 11.28 m (37 ft)
- Draught
- 4.27 m (14 ft)
- Speed
- 31 knots (57.4 km/h, 35.7 mph)
- Complement
- 174
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
- Propulsion
- 2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- steam turbines on 2 shafts
- 40,000 shp
- Armament
- 1 × twin 4 in gun Mark 19
- 1 × twin 40mm Bofors Mk.5
- 2 × Squid A/S mortar or
- 2 × Limbo Mark 10 A/S mortar
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Undaunted (R53) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 8812 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons