HMS Consort (R76)

HMS Consort on the river Clyde in 1945
Career (UK)
Class and type: C-class destroyer
Name: HMS Consort
Ordered: 14 August 1942
Builder: Alexander Stephen & Sons, Glasgow
Laid down: 26 May 1943
Launched: 19 October 1944
Commissioned: 19 March 1946
Identification: Pennant number: R76
Fate: Arrived for scrapping at Swansea on 15 March 1961
General characteristics
Class and type:C-class destroyer
Displacement:1,885 tons (1,915 tonnes)
2,545 tons full (2,585 tonnes)
Length:362.75 ft (110.57 m) o/a
Beam:35.75 ft (10.90 m)
Draught:11.75 ft (3.58 m)
Propulsion:2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers,
Parsons single-reduction geared steam turbines,
40,000 shp (29.8 MW), 2 shafts
Speed:36 kn / 32 kn full
Range:4,675 nmi at 20 kn
1,400 nmi at 32 kn
Complement:186 (222 as leader
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • Radar Type 276 target indication
  • Radar Type 291 air warning
  • Radar Type 285 fire control on director Type K
  • Radar Type 275 fire control on director Mk.VI
Armament:
  • 4 x QF 4.5 in L/45 guns Mark IV on mounts CP Mk.V
  • 2 x Bofors 40 mm L/60 guns on twin mount "Hazemeyer" Mk.IV
  • 4 x anti-aircraft mountings;
    • Single Bofors 40 mm Mk.III
    • Single QF 2 - pdr Mk.VIII Mk.XVI
    • Single Oerlikon 20 mm P Mk.III
    • Twin Oerlikon 20 mm Mk.V
  • 8 (2x4) tubes for 21 inch torpedoes Mk.IX
  • 4 throwers and 2 racks for 96 depth charges

HMS Consort was a C-class destroyer of the Royal Navy, launched on 19 October 1944 and commissioned on 19 March 1946.[1]

She lost 49 crew whilst berthed at Nanking in 1949 when she was attacked by the Chinese.[2] She suffered further loss during the Yangtze Incident in an attempt to tow Amethyst from a mudbank taking 56 direct hits, and causing casualties of 23 wounded and a further ten dead.[3]

Following decommissioning she was sold to the Prince of Wales Drydock Co, Swansea, Wales, arriving there on the 15 March 1961 for scrapping.

References

  1. ↑ Pocock, Michael W. "HMS Consort R-76 / D-76". MaritimeQuest.
  2. ↑ Ravenholt, R T. (18 December 2009). West Over the Seas to the Orient: Ravenholt Family, Formative Years, Life Adventures. Trafford Publishing. p. 32. ISBN 978-1-4269-1870-4.
  3. ↑ Cotterell, Arthur (26 January 2010). Western power in Asia: its slow rise and swift fall, 1415-1999. John Wiley & Sons. p. 307. ISBN 978-0-470-82489-4.

Publications

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 Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.