HMS Eskimo (F75)
Tribal-class destroyer launched 1937 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Eskimo.
HMS Eskimo was a Tribal-class destroyer, Eskimo served throughout the Second World War, seeing action in Norway, the Mediterranean, the English Channel and in Burma. After the war Eskimo was used as an accommodation and headquarters ship, finally being used as a practice target before being scrapped in 1949.
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Eskimo in April 1944 | |
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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 | |
Length | 377 ft (114.9 m) (o/a) |
Beam | 36 ft 6 in (11.13 m) |
Draught | 11 ft 3 in (3.43 m) |
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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 |
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