HMS Imperial in September 1937, wearing the three black bands of the 3rd Destroyer Flotilla on her aft funnel |
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| Career (UK) | |
|---|---|
| Name: | HMS Imperial |
| Ordered: | 30 October 1935 |
| Builder: | Hawthorn Leslie and Company |
| Cost: | £257,117 |
| Laid down: | 22 January 1936 |
| Launched: | 11 December 1936 |
| Commissioned: | 30 June 1937 |
| Identification: | Pennant number: D09/I09 |
| Motto: | Deum cole Regum serva ("Honour God, Serve the King") |
| Honours and awards: |
Atlantic 1939 Mediterranean Norway 1940 Crete 1941 |
| Fate: | Scuttled, 29 May 1941 |
| Badge: | On a Field Purple, two sceptres in saltire, surrmounted by an orb gold. |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class and type: | I-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,370 long tons (1,390 t) (standard) 1,888 long tons (1,918 t) (deep load) |
| Length: | 323 ft (98.5 m) |
| Beam: | 33 ft (10.1 m) |
| Draught: | 12 ft 5 in (3.8 m) |
| Installed power: | 34,000 shp (25,000 kW) |
| Propulsion: | 2 shafts, Parsons geared steam turbines 3 Admiralty 3-drum water-tube boilers |
| Speed: | 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph) |
| Range: | 5,530 nmi (10,240 km; 6,360 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement: | 145 |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
ASDIC |
| Armament: | 4 × 1 - 4.7-inch (120 mm) guns 2 × 4 - 0.5-inch (12.7 mm) machine guns 2 × 5 - 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes 20 × depth charges, 1 rail and 2 throwers |
| Service record | |
| Commanders: | Lt.Cmdr. Charles Arthur de Winton Kitcat |
| Operations: | Norwegian Campaign Malta Convoys Battle of Crete |
HMS Imperial was an I-class destroyer commissioned in 1937, that served with the Royal Navy during World War II until she was scuttled by HMS Hotspur in 1941.
The ship was ordered under the 1935 Build Programme from Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn, on 30 October 1935 with a delivery date of 30 April 1937. The ship was laid down on 26 January 1936 and launched on 11 December the same year, and was the first RN warship to carry the name. Imperial was completed late, on 30 June 1937, after a delay in the delivery of the gun mountings. The contract price was £257,117 excluding items supplied by Admiralty such as guns and communication equipment.[1]
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