Stevenstone at anchor in the Solent |
History |
United Kingdom |
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
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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 |
Class and type | Hunt-class destroyer |
Displacement |
- 1,050 long tons (1,070 t) standard
- 1,435 long tons (1,458 t) full load
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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)
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Speed |
- 27 knots (31 mph; 50 km/h)
- 25.5 kn (29.3 mph; 47.2 km/h) full
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Range | 2,350 nmi (4,350 km) at 20 kn (37 km/h) |
Complement | 168 |
Armament |
- 4 × QF 4-inch (102 mm) Mark XVI guns on twin mounts Mk. XIX
- 4 × QF 2-pounder (40 mm) Mk. VIII AA guns on quad mount MK.VII
- 2 × 20 mm Oerlikon AA guns on single mounts P Mk. III
- 2 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 110 depth charges, 4 throwers, 3 racks
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