HMS Childers (R91)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Childers.
HMS Childers at anchor on the River Clyde, December 1946.
History
United Kingdom
Name: HMS Childers
Ordered: 24 July 1942
Laid down: 27 November 1943
Launched: 18 February 1945
Commissioned: 19 December 1945
Decommissioned: 1951
Identification: Pennant number: R91 later changed to D91
Fate: Arrived in Spezia for scrapping 22 September 1963
General characteristics
Class & type: C-class destroyer
Displacement: 1710 tons[1]
Length: 362.75 ft (110.57 m)[1]
Beam: 35.66 ft (10.87 m)[1]
Draught: 10 ft (3.0 m) (mean), 16 ft (4.9 m) (max.)[1]
Installed power: 40,000 hp (30,000 kW)
Propulsion: Parsons geared turbines, 2 shafts; 2 Admiralty 3-drum type boilers[1]
Speed: 36 knots per kilometre per hour (30 km/h/mi/ks)
Complement: 186
Armament:

HMS Childers was a C-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that was in service from December 1945, and scrapped in 1963.

Construction

The Royal Navy ordered Childers on 24 July 1942, one of the eight Ch subclass of the C-class "Intermediate" destroyers of the 1942 Programme. She was built as a flotilla leader and commissioned in December 1946, too late for service in the Second World War.[2]

Service

In 1946 Childers was assigned to the 1st Destroyer Squadron based at Malta. She saw service, along with other Royal Navy ships in preventing illegal immigration into Palestine in 1947.[3] Her pennant number was also later changed to D90 from R91. She returned to the UK in 1950 and was placed in reserve in 1951. She was given an interim modernization in 1954, which saw her 'X' turret at the rear of the ship replaced by two Squid anti-submarine mortars.[4]

In 1958 she was laid up in reserve at Gibraltar.[5]

Decommissioning and disposal

Childers was never recommissioned and was subsequently sold for scrapping at La Spezia, arriving there on 22 September 1963.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Jane's Fighting Ships of World War II 1946/7", Jane's Publishing Company, London, UK, 1946, reprinted by Crescent Books, Avenel, New Jersey, USA, 1995, ISBN 0-517-67963-9, page 52.
  2. ↑ "HMS Childers (R 91)". uboat.net. Retrieved 23 May 2015.
  3. ↑ Stewart, Ninian (2002). The Royal Navy and the Palestine Patrol. Routledge. p. 140.
  4. ↑ Marriott, Leo (1989). Royal Navy Destroyers Since 1945. Ian Allen Ltd. p. 64.
  5. 1 2 Critchley, Mike (1982). British Warships Since 1945: Part 3: Destroyers. Liskeard, UK: Maritime Books. p. 98. ISBN 0-9506323-9-2.

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