| Career | |
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| Name: | HMS Tenacious |
| Ordered: | March 1941 |
| Builder: | Cammell Laird, Birkenhead |
| Laid down: | 3 December 1941 |
| Launched: | 24 March 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 30 October 1943 |
| Renamed: | Ordered as HMS Tempest, renamed before being launched |
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| Fate: | Arrived for scrapping in June 1965 |
| Notes: | Pennant number: R45 (later F44) |
| Badge: | On a field White a bulldog's face proper. |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | T-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,710 long tons (1,737 t) - 1,730 long tons (1,758 t) (standard nominal) 1,780 long tons (1,809 t) - 1,810 long tons (1,839 t) (actual) 2,505 long tons (2,545 t) - 2,545 long tons (2,586 t) (deep load) |
| Length: | 339 ft 6 in (103.48 m) pp 362 ft 9 in (110.57 m) oa |
| Beam: | 35 ft 8 in (10.87 m) |
| Draught: | 14 ft 2 in (4.32 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 shaft Parsons geared turbines 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers 40,000 shp |
| Speed: | 36.75 knots (42.29 mph; 68.06 km/h) |
| Complement: | 180-225 |
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| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Type 16 frigate |
| Displacement: | 1,800 long tons (1,800 t) standard 2,300 long tons (2,300 t) full load |
| Length: | 362 ft 9 in (110.57 m) o/a |
| Beam: | 37 ft 9 in (11.51 m) |
| Draught: | 14 ft 6 in (4.42 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers Steam turbines, 40,000 shp 2 shafts |
| Speed: | 32 knots (37 mph; 59 km/h) full load |
| Complement: | 175 |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
• Type 293Q target indication Radar • Type 974 navigation Radar • Type 1010 Cossor Mark 10 IFF • Type 146B search Sonar • Type 147 depth finder Sonar • Type 162 target classification Sonar • Type 174 attack Sonar |
| Armament: | • 1 × twin 4 in gun Mark 19 • 1 × twin 40 mm Bofors gun Mk.5 • 5 × single 40 mm Bofors gun Mk.9 • 2 × Squid A/S mortar • 1 × quad 21 in (533 mm) tubes for Mk.9 torpedoes |
HMS Tenacious (R45) was a T-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that saw service during the Second World War. She was built by Cammell Laird, of Birkenhead and launched on 24 March 1943. She was later converted to a Type 16 fast anti-submarine frigate, with the new pennant number F44. Tenacious was sold for scrapping in 1965. A book that described the ship's actions in World War II, H.M.S. Tenacious: Her Story was printed by Richard Clay and Company and contained a poem about the ship, The Roger Forty-Five and listed the crew who served on her between August 1943 and April 1946.
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