HMS Zest
W-class destroyer
Service
- as HMS Zest12 July 1944 — 1970417 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Zest
- Pennant / hull number
- R02
- Builder
- John I. Thornycroft
- Ordered
- 12 February 1942
- Laid down
- 21 July 1942
- Launched
- 14 October 1943
- Commissioned
- 12 July 1944
- Fate
- Broken up, 1970 (1970)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications — As W class
- Displacement, standard
- 1,710 long tons (1,737 t)
- Length
- 110.57 m (362.8 ft) OA
- Beam
- 10.9 m (35.8 ft)
- Draught
- 3.05 m (10 ft)
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Range
- 4,675 nmi (8,658 km)
- Complement
- 179
- Main gun
- 40 mm (1.6 in)
HMS Zest was a W-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number R02. John I. Thornycroft laid her keel on 21 July 1942. Launched on 14 October 1943, she entered service on 12 July 1944.
Displacement was 1,710 long tons. She measured 110.6 m (363 ft) long with a beam of 10.9 m (36 ft). Her designed speed was 36 knots, and she carried a complement of 179. Her main battery was of 40 mm (1.6 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 417 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in 1970.
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 W class
- Propulsion
- 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- Parsons single-reduction geared steam turbines
- 40000 shp, 2 shafts
- Armament
- 4 × QF 4.7-inch (120-mm) L/45 Mk.IX, single mounts CP Mk.XXII
- 4 × QF 2 pdr Mk.VIII, quad mount Mk.VII, or
- 2 × QF 40 mm Bofors, twin mount "Hazemeyer" Mk.IV
- 4 × A/A mountings
- twin 20 mm Oerlikon Mk.V
- single Bofors 40 mm Mk.III or "Boffin" Mk.V
- single QF 2 pdr Mk.XVI
- 8 (4x2) tubes for 21 inch (533 mm) torpedoes Mk.IX
- 2 racks & 4 throwers for 70 depth charges
Type 15 frigate
- Displacement, standard
- 2,300 long tons (2,337 t)
- Length
- 109.12 m (358 ft) OA
- Beam
- 11.51 m (37.8 ft)
- Draught
- 4.42 m (14.5 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
- 40000 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 Zest on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Stewart Bale Ltd, Liverpool. — This photograph FL 21914 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons