| HMS Stevenstone (L16) | |
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| Career |  |
| Class and type: | Hunt-class destroyer |
| Name: | HMS Stevenstone |
| Ordered: | 23 August 1940 |
| Builder: | J. Samuel White, East Cowes, Isle of Wight |
| Laid down: | 2 September 1941 |
| Launched: | 23 November 1942 |
| Commissioned: | 18 March 1943 |
| Honours and awards: |
English Channel 1943-44 North Sea 1944 Normandy 1944 |
| Fate: | Scrapped in 1959 |
| Badge: | On a Field per fess wavy Blue and White a cubit arm vested blue charged with a fesse indented and double cotised Gold, the hand proper grasping a horn also Gold. |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: |
1,050 long tons (1,070 t) standard 1,435 long tons (1,458 t) full load |
| Length: | 85.3 m (279 ft 10 in) o/a |
| Beam: | 10.16 m (33 ft 4 in) |
| Draught: | 3.51 m (11 ft 6 in) |
| Propulsion: |
2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers 2 shaft Parsons geared turbines, 19,000 shp (14,000 kW) |
| Speed: |
27 knots (31 mph; 50 km/h) 25.5 kn (29.3 mph; 47.2 km/h) full |
| Range: | 2,350 nmi (4,350 km) at 20 kn (37 km/h) |
| Complement: | 168 |
| Armament: |
• 4 × QF 4 in Mark XVI guns on twin mounts Mk. XIX |
HMS Stevenstone was a Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was a member of the third subgroup of the class, and saw service in the Second World War. All the ships of this class were named after British fox hunts. She was the first Royal Navy warship with this name, after the Stevenstone hunt in Devon.[1]
References[]
- ↑ Smith, Gordon (2011). "HMS Stevenstone, escort destroyer". naval-history.net. http://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chrono-10DE-Stevenstone.htm. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
Sources[]
- Colledge, J. J. & Warlow, Ben, Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present, Newbury, 2010
- English, John, The Hunts - A history of the design, development and careers of the 86 destroyers of this class built for the Royal and Allied Navies during World War II, Cumbria, 1987 (World Ship Society)
- Whitley, M. J., Destroyers of World War Two - an international encyclopedia, London, 1988
- Gardiner, Robert (ed.), Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922-1946, London, 1987
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