Royal Navy — Destroyer
HMS Wensleydale
Service
- as Wensleydale20 October 1942 — 11 December 1944783 days of the war
Hunt-class destroyer
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Wensleydale
- Builder
- Yarrow Shipbuilders, Scotstoun, Glasgow
- Ordered
- 23 August 1940
- Laid down
- 28 July 1941
- Launched
- 20 June 1942
- Commissioned
- 20 October 1942
- Fate
- Declared beyond economical repair on 11 December 1944 (1944)
- Status
- Unknown
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,050 long tons (1,067 t)
- Length
- 85.34 m (280 ft) OA
- Beam
- 9.45 m (31 ft)
- Draught
- 3.66 m (12 ft)
- Speed
- 27 knots (50 km/h, 31.1 mph)
- Range
- 2,350 nmi (4,352 km)
- Complement
- 168
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS Wensleydale was a Hunt-class destroyer, operated by the Royal Navy. Her keel was laid at Yarrow Shipbuilders, Scotstoun, Glasgow on 28 July 1941. Launched on 20 June 1942, she entered service on 20 October 1942.
Her class ran to 24 ships.
Displacement was 1,050 long tons. She measured 85.3 m (280 ft) long with a beam of 9.4 m (31 ft). Her designed speed was 27 knots, and she carried a complement of 168.
Her main battery was four 102 mm (4 in) guns in two twin mountings. 19,000 shp drove two shafts.
She was in commission for 783 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
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 shafts; geared steam turbines
- Power
- 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 19000 shp
- Armament
- 2 × twin 4 in guns
- 1 × quadruple 2 pdr (40 mm) AA guns
- 2 × single 20 mm Oerlikon AA guns
- 1 × twin 21 in torpedo tubes
- 3 × depth charge chutes, 4 × throwers for 110 depth charges
Sister ships
- HMS Blankney
- HMS Bleasdale
- HMS Derwent (L83)
- HMS Eridge (L68)
- HMS Exmoor (L08)
- HMS Exmoor (L61)
- HMS Goathland
- HMS Hambledon (L37)
- HMS Haydon
- HMS Heythrop (L85)
- HMS Hursley
- HMS Hurworth (L28)
- HMS Lauderdale
- HMS Liddesdale
- HMS Melbreak
- HMS Penylan
- HMS Puckeridge
- HMS Quorn (L66)
- HMS Rockwood
- HMS Stevenstone
- HMS Tanatside
- HMS Tynedale
- ORP Ślązak (L26)
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Wensleydale on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//20/media-20025/large.jpg This photograph FL 21557 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons