HMS Whaddon (L45) | |
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Class and type: | Type I Hunt class destroyer |
Name: | HMS Whaddon |
Ordered: | 11 April 1939 |
Builder: | Alexander Stephen & Sons, Linthouse, Govan |
Yard number: | Admiralty Job No.1472 |
Laid down: | 27 July 1939 |
Launched: | 16 July 1940 |
Commissioned: | 28 February 1941 |
Honours and awards: |
North Sea 1941-43 Sicily 1943 Salerno 1943 Mediterranean 1943 South France 1944 Aegean 1944 Adriatic 1944 |
Fate: | Scrapped in April 1959 |
General characteristics | |
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 Whaddon (L45) was a Type I Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy built by Alexander Stephen & Sons of Linthouse, Govan and launched on 16 July 1940. She was laid down on 27 July 1939 and commissioned 28 February 1941. Whaddon was scrapped at Faslane in April 1959. It has since had a British Sea Cadet Corps unit named after it, T.S Whaddon
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