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TORPEDO SHIPS

"Battle" destroyers, 3rd group (TOBRUK)

Tobruk 1950

Name No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Jutland   Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn 8/1944 2/11/1945 --- cancelled 12/1945
Poictiers   Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn 2/1944 4/1/1946 --- cancelled 12/1945
River Platte   Swan Hunter, Wallsend 4/1945 --- --- cancelled 12/1945
St. Lucia   A. Stephens, Linthouse 1945 --- --- cancelled 12/1945
Somme   Cammell Laird, Birkenhead 12/1944 --- --- cancelled 12/1945
Talavera   John Brown, Clydebank 8/1944 27/8/1945 --- cancelled 12/1945
Trincomalee   John Brown, Clydebank 2/1945 8/1/1946 --- cancelled 12/1945
Waterloo   Fairfield, Govan 6/1945 --- --- cancelled 12/1945
Tobruk (RAN) D37 Cockatoo DYd, Australia 8/1946 20/12/1947 5/1950 BU 2/1972
Anzac (RAN) D59 Williamstown DYd, Australia 9/1946 20/8/1948 3/1951 BU 11/1975

 

  

Displacement standard, t

2440

Displacement full, t

3450

Length, m

108.2 pp 115.5 oa

Breadth, m

12.5

Draught, m

4.67 deep load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

Parsons geared steam turbines, 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers

Power, h. p.

50000

Max speed, kn

35.75

Fuel, t

oil 727, diesel oil 40

Armament

2 x 2 - 114/45 QF Mk 6, 3 x 2 - 40/60 Bofors STAAG Mk 2,  6 x 1 - 40/60 Bofors Mk 7, 2 x 5 - 533 TT, 1 x 3 - 305 Squid DCT

Sensors

type 275, 262, 277, 291, 293 radars, type 170, 174 sonars

Complement

332

Ship project history: Ships of 3rd group was beamier as previous for improving of stability and were armed by new 114mm Mk V guns. Only two Australian ships were completed.

Modernizations: None

Naval service: Anzac was converted to TS in 1966, "B" turret was removed. 

 

 

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