HMS Eskimo (F75)
Eskimo in April 1944
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Eskimo |
Namesake | Eskimo |
Ordered | 19 June 1936 |
Builder | Vickers-Armstrongs, Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne |
Cost | £342,108 |
Laid down | 5 August 1936 |
Launched | 3 September 1937 |
Completed | 30 December 1938 |
Identification | Pennant numbers: L75, F75 & G75 |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 27 June 1949 |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Class and type | Tribal-class destroyer |
Displacement |
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Length | 377 ft (114.9 m) (o/a) |
Beam | 36 ft 6 in (11.13 m) |
Draught | 11 ft 3 in (3.43 m) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion | 2 × shafts; 2 × geared steam turbines |
Speed | 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph) |
Range | 5,700 nmi (10,600 km; 6,600 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 190 |
Sensors and processing systems | ASDIC |
Armament |
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HMS Eskimo was a
Description
The Tribals were intended to counter the large destroyers being built abroad and to improve the firepower of the existing destroyer
The primary armament of the Tribal-class destroyers was eight
The ships were fitted with a single above-water quadruple mount for
Wartime modifications
Heavy losses to German air attack during the
Construction and career
Authorized as one of nine Tribal-class destroyers under the 1936 Naval Estimates,
Eskimo participated in the Second Battle of Narvik in April 1940.[16] On 12 April, Eskimo was hit by a torpedo fired from German destroyer Z2 Georg Thiele. The explosion caused severe damage, blowing off Eskimo's bow.[17] After temporary repairs by the shipwrights of the fleet repair ship Vindictive at Skjelfjorden in Norway,[18] Eskimo was able to return to the Vickers-Armstrong works at Newcastle for rebuilding, which took until Sept. 1940.[19]
She supported the Allied landings in
Fate
Eskimo was reduced to an accommodation and headquarters ship for minesweepers, wreck-disposal vessels, and salvage craft clearing the
Museum holdings
Eskimo's
Her Pennant and Crest are on display at St Clares Church in Newton Aycliffe, Co Durham
Notes
- ^ Lenton, p. 164
- ^ English, p. 14
- ^ a b Lenton, p. 165
- ^ a b English, p. 12
- ^ March, p. 323
- ^ a b Whitley, p. 99
- ^ Hodges, pp. 13–25
- ^ Friedman, p. 32
- ^ Hodges, pp. 30–31, 40
- ^ English, p. 15
- ^ Friedman, p. 34; Hodges, pp. 41–42
- ^ Whitley, p. 116
- ^ Brice, p. 11
- ^ Colledge & Warlow, p. 116
- ^ English, pp. 13, 16
- ^ The Times (London), Friday, 26 April 1940, p.6
- ISBN 9781780966212. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
- ISBN 9780950229003. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
- ^ a b Guðmundur Helgason. "HMS Eskimo (F 75)". Uboat.net. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
- ^ Gough, Barry M; Wood, James A (Summer 2001). "'One more for luck': The destruction of U971 by HMCS Haida and HMS Eskimo, 24 June 1944" (PDF). Canadian Military History. 10 (3): 7–22. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 October 2013. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
- ^ Karting, pp. 381-84
- ^ "Ship's Bell [HMS Eskimo]". collections.rmg.co.uk. Royal Museums Greenwich. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
- ^ "Collections Search for 'HMS Eskimo'". iwm.org.uk. Imperial War Museums. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
- ^ "HMS Eskimo and other Destroyers Fitting Out at Durban". iwm.org.uk. Imperial War Museums. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
- ^ Brady, Mark (Autumn 2012). John Roberts (ed.). "The museum's models: HMS Eskimo (1938)" (PDF). Scuttlebutt: The Magazine of the National Museum of the Royal Navy (Portsmouth), HMS Victory and the Friends (45). National Museum of the Royal Navy: 24–27. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 March 2013. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
- ^ "Commander John West [obituary]". telegraph.co.uk. 20 November 2002. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
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- Crabb, Brian James (1998). In Harm's Way. The Story of HMS Kenya: A Second World War Cruiser. England: Paul Watkins. ISBN 1-900289-02-4.
- Crabb, Brian James (2014). Operation Pedestal: The Story of Convoy WS21S in August 1942. England: Shaun Tyas. ISBN 978-1-907730-19-1.
- English, John (2001). Afridi to Nizam: British Fleet Destroyers 1937–43. Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-64-9.
- ISBN 1-86176-137-6.
- Haarr, Geirr H. (2010). The Battle for Norway: April–June 1940. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-59114-051-1.
- Haarr, Geirr H. (2009). The German Invasion of Norway, April 1940. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-59114-310-9.
- Hodges, Peter (1971). Tribal Class Destroyers. London: Almark. ISBN 0-85524-047-4.
- Karting, Herbert (2015). Itzehoer Schifffahrtschronik: Die maritime Geschichte der Stadt und ihres Hafens, ihrer Kaufleute, Schiffer, Reeder, Schiffbauer und deren Fahrzeuge bis zur Gegenwart (in German). Falkenburg. ISBN 978-3954940523.
- ISBN 1-55750-048-7.
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- ISBN 0-87021-326-1.