HMS Loyal (G15)

Side view of her sister HMS Lookout
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Loyal
Ordered	31 March 1938
Builder	Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock, Scotland
Laid down	23 November 1938
Launched	8 October 1940
Completed	31 October 1942
Identification	Pennant number G15
Fate	Struck a constructive total loss Sold for scrap, 1948
General characteristics as completed
Class and type	L-class destroyer
Displacement	1,920 long tons (1,951 t) (standard) 2,660 long tons (2,703 t) (deep)
Length	362 ft 3 in (110.4 m) o/a
Beam	37 ft (11.3 m)
Draught	13 ft 9 in (4.2 m)
Installed power	48,000 shp (36,000 kW) 2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
Propulsion	2 × shafts 2 × Parsons geared steam turbines
Speed	36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range	5,500 nmi (10,200 km; 6,300 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	190
Sensors and processing systems	ASDIC Type 285 anti-aircraft (AA) radar Type 286M air warning radar
Armament	3 × twin 4.7 in (120 mm) Mark XI dual-purpose guns 1 × quadruple QF 2 pdr (40 mm) Mk VIII AA guns 6 × single Oerlikon 20 mm cannon 2 × quadruple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes 45 × depth charges

HMS Loyal was a L-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the late 1930s, although she was not completed until after World War II had begun.

Description

The L-class destroyers were designed as enlarged and improved versions of the preceding

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