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HMS Cleveland (L46)
HMS Cleveland 1942 IWM FL 1978
HMS Cleveland in Plymouth Sound, October 1942
Career (United Kingdom) Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom
Name: HMS Cleveland
Ordered: 21 March 1939
Builder: Yarrow Shipbuilders, Glasgow
Yard number: Admiralty Job No.1835
Laid down: 7 July 1939
Launched: 24 April 1940
Completed: 18 September 1940
Identification: pennant number: L46
Honours and
awards:
  • Basque Roads 1809
  • Atlantic 1942
  • English Channel 1942
  • North Sea 1943
  • Sicily 1943
  • Salerno 1943
  • South France 1944
  • Aegean 1944
  • Adriatic 1944
Fate: Scrapped in December 1959
Badge: On a Field per fess wavy Red and Blue, upon a White roundel a huntsman's cap Black in front of a stirrup Red.
General characteristics
Class & type: Type I Hunt-class destroyer
Displacement:
  • 1,000 long tons (1,000 t) standard
  • 1,340 long tons (1,360 t) full load
Length: 85 m (278 ft 10 in) o/a
Beam: 8.8 m (28 ft 10 in)
Draught: 3.27 m (10 ft 9 in)
Propulsion:
  • 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
  • 2 shaft Parsons geared turbines, 19,000 shp
Speed:
  • 27.5 knots (31.6 mph; 50.9 km/h)
  • 26 kn (30 mph; 48 km/h) full
  • Range:
  • 3,500 nmi (6,500 km) at 15 kn (28 km/h)
  • 1,000 nmi (1,900 km) at 26 kn (48 km/h)
  • Complement: 146
    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

    HMS Cleveland (L46) was a Type I Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy built by Yarrow Shipbuilders of Scotstoun, and launched on 24 April 1940. She was adopted by the civil community of Middlesbrough then in the North Riding of Yorkshire, as part of the Warship Week campaign in 1942.

    Service history[]

    On commissioning in 1940 she completed work ups for service in Home waters, both the North sea and the English Channel which continued throughout 1941 and 1942. During April 1943 she was nominated for service in the Mediterranean. During that year she provided cover for the allied landings in Sicily and Salerno. During the following year she was again deployed in the Mediterranean and the Aegean.

    On 29 September 1945 Cleveland sailed from Gibraltar to Devonport and was placed in reserve.[1] She was sold for scrapping and was wrecked on the Gower peninsula near Swanse en route to the breakers yard. The wreck was stripped and blown up on 14 December 1959.

    References[]

    1. Critchley, Mike, "British Warships Since 1945: Part 3: Destroyers", Maritime Books: Liskeard, UK, 1982. ISBN 0-9506323-9-2, page 29

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