HMS Eglinton (L87)

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HMS Eglinton (L87) - Wikipedia

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History
HMS Eglinton, c1942
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Eglinton
Ordered	21 March 1939
Builder	Vickers-Armstrongs, River Tyne
Yard number	Admiralty Job No.J4091
Laid down	8 June 1939
Launched	28 December 1939
Completed	28 August 1940
Identification	Pennant number: L87
Honours and awards	Atlantic 1940 English Channel 1940–44 North Sea 1941–44 Normandy 1944
Fate	Scrapped in May 1956
Badge	On a Field Red, two hunting horns in saltire and three annulets interlaced Gold
General characteristics
Class and type	Type I Hunt-class destroyer
Displacement	1,000 long tons (1,016 t) standard 1,340 long tons (1,362 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-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 40 depth charges, 2 throwers, 1 rack

HMS Eglinton (L87) was a Type I Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy built by Vickers-Armstrongs on the River Tyne, and launched on 28 December 1939. She was adopted by the town of Alton, Hampshire, as part of the Warship Week campaign in 1942.

Service history

Eglinton served with the 16th Destroyer Flotilla at Harwich for the whole of her wartime service. She was involved in two actions with German S-Boats whilst escorting East coast convoys. She also was part of the support force for the Normandy landings.^[1]

After August 1945 she was decommissioned and placed in reserve at Harwich.^[2] On 24 June 1955 she was designated as a trials ship for exercise 'Sleeping Beauty' designed to test the state of ships held in reserve, and the time taken to bring them forward for service in the active fleet. She was sold for scrapping and arrived for scrapping at Blyth by Hughes Bolckow on 28 May 1956.^[3]

References

^ English, John (1987). The Hunts. Cumbria: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-44-4.
^ Critchley, Mike, "British Warships Since 1945: Part 3: Destroyers", Maritime Books: Liskeard, UK, 1982. ISBN 0-9506323-9-2, page 24
^ English p.59

Publications

Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
English, John (1987). 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. England: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-44-4.

External links

Profile on naval-history.net

Hunt-class destroyers

Type I
Royal Navy	Atherstone Berkeley Blencathra Brocklesby Cattistock Cleveland Cotswold Cottesmore Eglinton Exmoor (L61) Fernie Garth Hambledon Holderness Liddesdale Mendip Meynell Pytchley Quantock Quorn Southdown Tynedale Whaddon
Republic of China Navy	Lin Fu (ex-Mendip)
Ecuadorian Navy	Presidente Alfaro (ex-Quantock) Presidente Velasco Ibarra (ex-Meynell)
Egyptian Navy	Mohamed Ali el-Kebir (1949) / Ibrahim el-Awal (1951) (ex-Mendip) Ibrahim el-Awal (1950) / Mohamed Ali el-Kebir (1951)/ Port Said (ex-Cottesmore)
Israeli Navy	Haifa (ex-Ibrahim el-Awal (1951))

Type II
Royal Navy	Avon Vale Badsworth Beaufort Bedale Bicester Blackmore Blankney Bramham Burton / Exmoor (L08) Calpe Chiddingfold Cowdray Croome Dulverton Eridge Farndale Grove Heythrop Hursley Hurworth Lamerton Lauderdale Ledbury Middleton Oakley (L72) Puckeridge Southwold Silverton Tetcott Tickham / Oakley (L98) Wheatland Wilton Zetland
Royal Danish Navy	Esbern Snare (ex-Blackmore) Rolf Krake (ex-Calpe) Valdemar Sejr (ex-Exmoor (L08))
German Navy	Gneisenau (ex-Oakley (L98))
Royal Hellenic Navy	Aigaion (ex-Lauderdale) Admiral Hastings (L52) (ex-Cowdray) Themistoklis (ex-Bramham) Kriti (ex-Hursley)
Indian Navy	Godavari (ex-Bedale) Gomati (ex-Lamerton) Ganga (ex-Chiddingfold)
Royal Norwegian Navy	Arendal (ex-Badsworth) Haugesund (ex-Beaufort) Tromsø (ex-Zetland)
Free Polish Navy	Krakowiak (ex-Silverton) Kujawiak (ex-Oakley (L72)) Ślązak (ex-Bedale)

Type III
Royal Navy	Airedale Albrighton Aldenham Belvoir Blean Bleasdale Bolebroke Border Catterick Derwent Easton Eggesford Eskdale Glaisdale Goathland Haldon Hatherleigh Haydon Holcombe Limbourne Melbreak Modbury Penylan Rockwood Stevenstone Talybont Tanatside Wensleydale
Free French Naval Forces	La Combattante (ex-Haldon)
German Navy	Raule (ex-Albrighton) Brommy (ex-Eggesford)
Royal Hellenic Navy	Adrias (L67) (ex-Border) Adrias (D06) (ex-Tanatside) Hastings (L81) (ex-Catterick) Kanaris (ex-Hatherleigh) Miaoulis (ex-Modbury) Pindos (ex-Bolebroke)
Royal Norwegian Navy	Eskdale Narvik (ex-Glaisdale)

Type IV
Royal Navy	Brecon Brissenden

Preceded by: N class
Followed by: L class

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