HMS Whaddon
Type I Hunt-class destroyer
Service
- as HMS Whaddon28 February 1941 — April 19591,647 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Whaddon
- Pennant / hull number
- L45
- Builder
- Alexander Stephen & Sons, Linthouse, Govan
- Ordered
- 11 April 1939
- Laid down
- 27 July 1939
- Launched
- 16 July 1940
- Commissioned
- 28 February 1941
- Fate
- Scrapped in April 1959 (1959)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,000 long tons (1,016 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,340 long tons (1,362 t)
- Length
- 85 m (278.9 ft) OA
- Beam
- 8.8 m (28.9 ft)
- Draught
- 3.27 m (10.7 ft)
- Speed
- 27.5 knots (50.9 km/h, 31.6 mph)
- Range
- 3,500 nmi (6,482 km)
- Complement
- 146
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS Whaddon was a Type I Hunt-class destroyer in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number L45. Her keel was laid at Alexander Stephen & Sons, Linthouse, Govan on 27 July 1939. She entered service on 28 February 1941, having been launched on 16 July 1940.
Displacement was 1,000 long tons standard and 1,340 long tons at full load. She measured 85 m (279 ft) long with a beam of 8.8 m (29 ft). Her designed speed was 27.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 146. Her main battery was of 102 mm (4.0 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 1,647 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in April 1959.
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 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 2 shaft Parsons geared turbines, 19,000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × QF 4 in Mark XVI on twin mounts Mk. XIX
- 4 × QF 2 pdr Mk. VIII on quad mount MK.VII
- 2 × 20 mm Oerlikons on single mounts P Mk. III
- 40 depth charges, 2 throwers, 1 rack
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Whaddon on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 3916 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons