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EGRET sloops (3, 1938 - 1939)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Auckland (ex-Heron) L61 - U61 1317 Denny, Dumbarton 6/1937 30.6.1938 11.1938 sunk 24.6.1941
Egret L75 - U75 1835 White, Cowes 7/1937 31.5.1938 11.1938 sunk 27.8.1943
Pelican L86 - U86, 1948- F86 1177 Thornycroft, Woolston 9/1937 12.9.1938 3.1939 BU 11.1958


Technical data


Max speed, kts, kn

19.25

Displacement standard, t

1250

Displacement full, t

1790

Length, m

89.2

Breadth, m

11.4

Draught, m

3.40

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers

Power, h. p.

3600

Fuel, t

oil 370

Endurance, nm(kts)

6200(15)

Armament

4 x 2 - 102/45 QF Mk XVI, 2 x 1 - 47/40 3pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, 1 х 4 - 12.7/62, 2 DCT, 1 DCR (15)

Electronic equipmenttype 127 sonar
Complement

188



Standard scale images


<i>Egret</i> 1943
Egret 1943


Project history

On half-knot more faster variant of Bittern class with additional fourth twin 102mm DP mount, designed for 1936 and 1937 Programmes.

Modernizations

autumn 1939, all: - 2 x 1 - 47/40; DC stowage increased up to 40

1941, Egret: + 1 x 1 - 40/39 QF Mk II, 1 x 4 - 12.7/62, type 285, type 286 radars

1941, Pelican: + 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 1 x 4 - 12.7/62, type 286 radar

1942, Egret: - 1 x 1 - 40/39; + 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, type 271 radar

1942, Pelican: + 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV

1943, Egret: - type 127 sonar; + 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog ASWRL, type 144 sonar

1943, Pelican: - type 286 radar; + type 271, type 291 radars

2/1944, Pelican: - 1 x 2 - 102/45, 1 x 4 - 12.7/62, type 127 sonar; + 1 x 4 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk VIII, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog ASWRL, 2 DCT, 1 DCR, DC stowage increased up to 120, type 144 sonar

1/1946, Pelican: 3 x 2 - 102/45 Mk XIX, 1 x 4 - 40/39 Mk VII, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog ASWRL, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (120), type 271, type 291 radars, type 144 sonar

Naval service

Auckland was sunk by Italian bomber Ju 87 at Tobruk 24.6.1941. Egret was sunk by German Hs 293 gliding bomb from Do 217 bomber 27.8.1943. Pelican was laid up shortly after war.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.