HMS Impulsive (D11)
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Career | |
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Built By: | J. Samuel White and Company, Limited, at Cowes, Isle of Wight |
Laid down: | March 1936 |
Launched: | 1 March 1937 |
Commissioned: | 29 January 1938 |
Paid off: | |
Fate: | scrapped 1946 |
Penant: | |
General Characteristics | |
Type: | Destroyer |
Displacement: | 1,340 tons (except Inglefield 1456 tons) (standard) 1,980 tons (full load) |
Length: | 323 ft (98 m) (except Inglefield 337 ft) |
Beam: | 33 ft |
Draught: | 12 ft 5 inch (13 ft 4 inch full load) |
Propulsion: | Parsons geared turbines, 2 shafts, 3 boilers, 34,000 hp (30 MW) |
Speed: | 36 knots (70 km/h) |
Range: | |
Complement: | 145 |
Armament: | four (Inglefield 5) 4.7 inch (120 mm) guns eight 0.5 inch (13 mm) AA machine guns 10 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes, (2 x5) (8 torpedo tubes in ex "Turkish" ships) 45 depth charges. |
Armour: | |
Aircraft: | none |
Source: | Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922-1946 |
HMS Impulsive (D11) was an I-class destroyer that served in the Royal Navy during World War II.
Impulsive attacked and sank the enemy German submarine U-457 in the Barents Sea north-east of Murmansk in Russia on 16 September 1942.
Impulsive was sold for scrap to W. H. Arnott, Young and Company, Limited on 22 January 1946 and broken up at Sunderland.
See HMS Impulsive for other ships of this name.