HMS Eglinton (L87)

	HMS Eglinton, c1942
History
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

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[1] English, John (1987). The Hunts. Cumbria: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-44-4.

[2] Critchley, Mike, "British Warships Since 1945: Part 3: Destroyers", Maritime Books: Liskeard, UK, 1982. ISBN 0-9506323-9-2, page 24

[3] English p.59

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