HMS Impulsive (D11)

HMS Impulsive (D11)
Career (UK)
Name:	HMS Impulsive
Builder:	J. Samuel White and Company, Cowes
Laid down:	March 1936
Launched:	1 March 1937
Commissioned:	29 January 1938
Identification:	Pennant number: D11
Fate:	Scrapped 1946
General characteristics (as built)
Class & type:	I-class destroyer
Displacement:	1,370 long tons (1,390 t) (standard) 1,888 long tons (1,918 t) (deep load)
Length:	323 ft (98.5 m)
Beam:	33 ft (10.1 m)
Draught:	12 ft 5 in (3.8 m)
Installed power:	34,000 shp (25,000 kW)
Propulsion:	2 shafts, Parsons geared steam turbines 3 Admiralty 3-drum water-tube boilers
Speed:	36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range:	5,530 nmi (10,240 km; 6,360 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement:	145
Sensors and processing systems:	ASDIC
Armament:	4 × 1 - 4.7-inch (120 mm) guns 2 × 4 - 0.5-inch (12.7 mm) machine guns 2 × 5 - 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes 20 × depth charges, 1 rail and 2 throwers 60 × Mines

Service record
Victories:	Sank U-457 (1942)

HMS Impulsive was an I-class destroyer that served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. She has been the only ship of the Navy to bear this name.

Impulsive attacked and sank the enemy German submarine U-457 in the Barents Sea north-east of Murmansk in Russia on 16 September 1942.

Impulsive was sold for scrap to W. H. Arnott, Young and Company, Limited on 22 January 1946 and broken up at Sunderland.

References

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