HMS Pathfinder (G10)
Career (United Kingdom) | |
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Name: | HMS Pathfinder |
Ordered: | 2 October 1939 |
Builder: | Hawthorn Leslie and Company, Newcastle upon Tyne |
Laid down: | 5 March 1940 |
Launched: | 10 April 1941 |
Commissioned: | 13 April 1942 |
Identification: | Pennant number: G10 |
Fate: | Scrapped in 1948 |
Notes: | Badge: On a Field per Pale wavy and White a bloodhound Proper. |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | P-class destroyer |
Displacement: | 1,690 tons (1,717 tonnes) standard 2,250 tons (2,286 tonnes) full load |
Length: | 345 ft (105 m) o/a |
Beam: | 35 ft (11 m) |
Draught: | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
Propulsion: | 2 x Admiralty 3-drum water-tube boilers, Parsons geared steam turbines, 40,000 shp (30,000 kW) on 2 shafts |
Speed: | 36.75 knots (68.06 km/h) |
Range: | 3,850 nautical miles (7,130 km) at 20 kn (37 km/h) |
Complement: | 176 |
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HMS Pathfinder was a P class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She served during the Second World War, being damaged while serving in the Far East, and was scrapped after the end of the war.
The ship was built by Hawthorn Leslie & Co, and was launched on 10 April 1941, and commissioned in April 1942. During the Second World War, Pathfinder was active in a number of theatres, and helped to sink several enemy submarines.
Pathfinder was commanded by Commander Edward Albert Gibbs from January 1942 to November 1943, during which time she assisted the destroyer Ithuriel in sinking the Italian submarine Cobalto, assisted the destroyers Vimy and Quentin to sink the German submarine U-162, assisted in the rescue of nearly 5,000 survivors from the troopship Strathallan after it was torpedoed off Oran, Algeria. She also sank the German submarine U-203 with assistance from Swordfish aircraft flying off the aircraft carrier Biter.
On 11 February 1945, Pathfinder was hit by a Japanese bomber plane off Ramree, and was taken out of service. The ship was scrapped in November 1948 at Milford Haven.
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References
- Raven, Alan; Roberts, John (1978). War Built Destroyers O to Z Classes. London: Bivouac Books. ISBN 0-85680-010-4.
- Whitley, M. J. (1988). Destroyers of World War 2. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-326-1.
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