HMS Meteor (G74)
|
| Career (United Kingdom) |
|
| Name: |
HMS Meteor |
| Ordered: |
7 July 1939 |
| Builder: |
Alexander Stephen and Sons, Linthouse, Scotland |
| Laid down: |
14 September 1940 |
| Launched: |
3 November 1941 |
| Completed: |
12 August 1942 |
| Fate: |
Sold to the Turkish Navy on 29 June 1959, renamed Piyale Pasha |
| Notes: |
Pennant number G74 |
| Career (Turkey) |
|
| Name: |
Piyale Pasha |
| Acquired: |
29 June 1959 |
| Fate: |
Discarded 1979? |
| General characteristics as completed |
| Class and type: |
M-class destroyer |
| Displacement: |
1,920 long tons (1,950 t) (standard)
2,660 long tons (2,700 t) (deep) |
| Length: |
362 ft 3 in (110.4 m) o/a |
| Beam: |
37 ft (11.3 m) |
| Draught: |
10 ft (3.0 m) |
| Installed power: |
48,000 shp (36,000 kW) |
| Propulsion: |
2 × shafts
2 × Parsons geared steam turbines
2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers |
| Speed: |
36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph) |
| Range: |
5,500 nmi (10,200 km; 6,300 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement: |
190 |
Sensors and
processing systems: |
ASDIC
Type 285 anti-aircraft (AA) radar
Type 286M air warning radar |
| Armament: |
3 × 2 - 4.7 in (120 mm) Mark XI dual purpose guns
1 × 1 - 4-inch Mark V AA gun
1 × 4 - QF 2 pdr (40 mm) Mk VIII AA guns
2 × 1 - 20 mm (0.79 in) Oerlikon AA guns
2 × 4, 2 × 2 - QF .5 in (12.7 mm) Vickers Mark III AA machine guns
1 × 4 - 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
42 × depth charges, 2 rails and 2 throwers |
HMS Meteor was a M-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during World War II.
Notes
References
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.
- Friedman, Norman (2006). British Destroyers & Frigates: The Second World War and After. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-86176-137-6.
- Lenton, H. T. (1998). British & Commonwealth Warships of the Second World War. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-048-7.
- Rohwer, Jürgen (2005). Chronology of the War at Sea 1939-1945: The Naval History of World War Two (Third Revised ed.). Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-119-2.
- Whitley, M. J. (1988). Destroyers of World War 2. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-326-1.
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