Royal Navy — Destroyer
L55
HMS Winchester (L55)
Service
- as HMS Winchester? — March 19462,193 days of the war
HMS Winchester (L55)
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Winchester
- Pennant / hull number
- L55
- Builder
- J. Samuel White, East Cowes, Isle of Wight
- Laid down
- 12 June 1917
- Launched
- 1 February 1918
- Fate
- Sold for scrap in March 1946 (1946)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,100 long tons (1,118 t)
- Length
- 91.44 m (300 ft) OA
- Beam
- 8.15 m (26.7 ft)
- Draught
- 2.74 m (9 ft)
- Speed
- 34 knots (63 km/h, 39.1 mph)
- Range
- 3,500 nmi (6,482 km)
- Complement
- 110
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS Winchester was a destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number L55. J. Samuel White, East Cowes, Isle of Wight laid her keel on 12 June 1917. She was launched on 1 February 1918.
Displacement was 1,100 long tons. She measured 91.4 m (300 ft) long with a beam of 8.2 m (27 ft). Her designed speed was 34 knots, and she carried a complement of 110. Her main battery was of 102 mm (4.0 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in March 1946.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 3 Yarrow type Water-tube boilers
- Brown-Curtis steam turbines
- 2 shafts
- 27000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × QF 4 in Mk.V (102mm L/45), mount P Mk.I
- 2 × QF 2 pdr Mk.II "pom-pom" (40 mm L/39) or
- 1 × QF 3 inch 20 cwt (76 mm), mount HA Mk.II
- 6 (2x3) tubes for 21 in torpedoes
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Winchester (L55) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//7/media-7429/large.jpg This photograph FL 21704 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons