User:Lizard1234/HMS Airedale (L07)
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Aldenham in March 1942 | |
History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Airedale |
Ordered | 4 July 1940 |
Builder | John Brown & Company, Clydebank |
Yard number | J1578 |
Laid down | 20 November 1940 |
Launched | 12 August 1941 |
Completed | 8 January 1942 |
Commissioned | 8 January 1942 |
Identification | Pennant number: L07 |
Honours and awards | ARCTIC 1942 - LIBYA 1943 |
Fate | Sunk in the Mediterranean Sea, 15 June 1942, at 33°50′N 23°50′E |
Badge | On a Field White, in front of a pomme, a hare courant Gold |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Type III Hunt-class destroyer |
Displacement |
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Length | 85.3 m (279 ft 10 in) o/a |
Beam | 9.6 m (31 ft)10.16 m (33 ft 4 in) |
Draft | 3.51 m (11 ft 6 in) |
Propulsion |
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Speed |
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Range | 2,350 nautical miles (4,350 km) at 20.0 knots (37 km/h) |
Complement | 177 (9 officers, 168 ratings) |
Armament |
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Notes | cost £352,000[1] |
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HMS Airedale (pennant number L07) was an escort destroyer of the Type III Hunt-class. The Royal Navy ordered its construction in July 1940. In February 1942, shortly after her completion, she was nominated to provide local escort for Russian Convoy PQ11. After escorting HMS Dauntless from Gibralter to Simon's_Town, South Africa, Airedale sailed as part of the Operation Vigorous escort force, protecting a supply convoy to Malta. On the afternoon of 15 June, the ship was heavily damaged by air attack and scuttled later that day.