| Career (UK) | |
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| Class and type: | Hunt class destroyer |
| Name: | HMS Eridge |
| Builder: | Swan Hunter, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom |
| Laid down: | 21 November 1939 |
| Launched: | 20 August 1940 |
| Commissioned: | 28 February 1941 |
| Reclassified: | Base ship on 29 August 1942 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap, 1946 |
| General characteristics Type II |
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| Displacement: | 1,050 long tons (1,070 t) standard 1,430 long tons (1,450 t) full load |
| Length: | 85.3 m (279 ft 10 in) o/a |
| Beam: | 9.6 m (31 ft 6 in) |
| Draught: | 2.51 m (8 ft 3 in) |
| Propulsion: | 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers 2 shaft Parsons geared turbines, 19,000 shp (14,000 kW) |
| Speed: | 27 knots (31 mph; 50 km/h) 25.5 kn (29.3 mph; 47.2 km/h) full |
| Range: | 3,600 nmi (6,700 km) at 14 kn (26 km/h) |
| Complement: | 164 |
| Armament: | • 6 × QF 4 in Mark XVI on twin mounts Mk. XIX • 4 × QF 2 pdr Mk. VIII on quad mount MK.VII • 2 × 20 mm Oerlikons on single mounts P Mk. III • 110 depth charges, 2 throwers, 3 racks |
| Service record | |
| Commanders: | Lt.Cdr. William Frank Niemann Gregory-Smith |
HMS Eridge was a Hunt class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1940 and served during the Second World War. She was permanently disabled while shelling Axis positions on 29 August 1942 off El Daba, Egypt, at , by a 450mm torpedo fired by a small Italian surface craft and subsequently used as a base ship at Alexandria for the rest of the war. She was sold for scrapping in October 1946 .
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