HMS Impulsive (D11)

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Career The White Ensign of the Royal Navy.
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.

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