HNoMS Eskdale
Norwegian navy ship
HNoMS Eskdale (pennant number L36) was an escort destroyer of the Type III Hunt class. The destroyer served with the Royal Norwegian Navy. It was sunk by German S-boats in 1943.
Construction and design
Eskdale was one of fifteen Type III Hunt-class destroyers ordered for the Royal Navy on 23 August 1940, as part of the 1940 War Emergency Programme, with 28 Type III Hunts ordered over the course of 1940. The Hunt class was meant to fill the Royal Navy's need for a large number of small destroyer-type vessels capable of convoy escort and operations with the fleet. The Type III Hunts differed from the previous Type II ships in replacing a twin 4-inch gun mount by two torpedo tubes to improve their ability to operate as destroyers.
The Type III Hunts were 264 feet 3 inches (80.54 m) long between perpendiculars and 280 feet (85.34 m) overall, with a beam was 31 feet 6 inches (9.60 m) and draught 7 feet 9 inches (2.36 m). Displacement was 1,050 long tons (1,070 t) standard and 1,490 long tons (1,510 t) under full load. Two Admiralty boilers raising steam at 300 pounds per square inch (2,100 kPa) and 620 °F (327 °C) fed Parsons single-reduction geared steam turbines that drove two propeller shafts, generating 19,000 shaft horsepower (14,000 kW) at 380 rpm. This gave a design maximum speed of 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph).
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