Ensiklopedia Dunia

Technopedia Center

Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science
S1 Informatics S1 Information Systems S1 Information Technology S1 Computer Engineering S1 Electrical Engineering S1 Civil Engineering

faculty of Economics and Business
S1 Management S1 Accountancy

Faculty of Letters and Educational Sciences
S1 English literature S1 English language education S1 Mathematics education S1 Sports Education

HMS Wheatland - Wikipedia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

History
Wheatland during the Second World War
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Wheatland
Ordered	4 September 1939
Builder	Yarrow Shipbuilders
Laid down	30 May 1940
Launched	7 June 1941
Commissioned	3 November 1941
Decommissioned	19 June 1945
Identification	Pennant number: L122
Honours and awards	Arctic 1942, North Africa 1942–43, Sicily 1943, Mediterranean 1943, Salerno 1943, Adriatic 1944
Fate	Scrapped at Bo'ness on 20 September 1957
General characteristics Type II
Class and type	Hunt-class destroyer
Displacement	1,050 long tons (1,070 t) standard 1,430 long tons (1,450 t) full load
Length	85.3 m (279 ft 10 in) o/a
Beam	9.6 m (31 ft 6 in)
Draught	2.51 m (8 ft 3 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	3,600 nmi (6,700 km) at 14 kn (26 km/h)
Complement	164
Armament	6 × 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 110 depth charges, 2 throwers, 3 racks

HMS Wheatland was a Type 2 Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that served in the Second World War.

Construction

Wheatland was ordered from Yarrow Shipbuilders, Scotstoun on 4 September 1939, one of 17 Hunt-class destroyers ordered on that day as part of the 1939 Emergency War Programme. The ship was laid down on 30 May 1940 and was launched on 7 June 1941, commissioning (with the pennant number L122^[1]) on 3 November 1941.^[2] She was named after "The Wheatland Hunt", an annual fox hunt held in Shropshire.^[3] During Warship Week in 1942 she was adopted by the town of Uttoxeter.

Wartime service

On completion in 1941 Wheatland was sent to Scapa Flow as part of the Naval Force to undertake the Commando raid on the Lofoten Islands.^[4] The following year she took part in escort duties in support of the Russian Convoys. In 1943 she served in the Mediterranean, including support for the Sicily landings in July of that year. This included shore bombardment of Taormina on Sicily.

In 1944 she continued operations in the Mediterranean on convoy duties, including in July 1944 being nominated for escort duties in the planned landings in the south of France.

While being deployed with HMS Avon Vale, on 1 November 1944, Wheatland engaged German surface craft south of the island of Lussino, sinking the torpedo boat TA20, and the corvettes UJ202 and UJ208, and rescuing some of the survivors in Action of 1 November 1944.^[5]

Post war

After the war Wheatland returned to Devonport and transferred to the Reserve Fleet. She stayed there until 1953 when she was towed to Gibraltar where she remained in reserve. In 1955 she was brought back to Harwich before being placed on the disposal list. She remained there until September 1957 when she was sold to BISCO for scrapping by McLennan. She arrived at their breakers yard in Bo'ness on 20 September 1957.^[4]

References

^ English 1987, p. 106.
^ English 1987, p. 17.
^ "HMS Weatland". CRANSTON FINE ARTS. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
^ ^a ^b Mason, Geoffrey B. (2004). Gordon Smith (ed.). "HMS Wheatland (L 122) - Type 2, Hunt-class Escort Destroyer". naval-history.net. Retrieved 25 November 2015.
^ O'Hara, Vincent P. (2004). The German fleet at war, 1939–1945. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. pp. 179–181. ISBN 9781591146513.

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. World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-44-4.

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

List of destroyer classes of the Royal Navy

This article about a specific naval ship or boat of the United Kingdom is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Categories:

Hidden categories: