Glaisdale 1943
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Eskdale | L36 | Cammell Laird, Birkenhead, UK | 1.1941 | 16.3.1942 | 7.1942 | sunk 14.4.1943 | |
| Glaisdale, 1946- Narvik | L44, 1950- D309, 1956- F309 | Cammell Laird, Birkenhead, UK | 2.1941 | 5.1.1942 | 6.1942 | stricken 5.1961 |
Displacement
standard, t 1050 Displacement
full, t 1490,
later 1545 - 1590 Length, m 80.5
pp 85.3
oa Breadth, m 9.60 Draught, m 3.73
deep load No of shafts 2 Machinery
2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers Power, h. p. 19000 Max speed, kts 27 Fuel, t
oil 277 Armament 2 x 2 - 102/45
QF Mk XVI, 1 x 4 - 40/39 QF Mk VIII, 3 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 1 x 2 - 533 TT, 4
DCT, 2 DCR (30 - 70) Complement 168
Endurance, nm(kts)
2100(20)
Electronic equipment
type 271 (some), type 285, type 286 radars,
type 128 sonar
Project history: Former British Hunt (3rd series) escort destroyers, transferred to Norway when were fitted out and commissioned already under the Norwegian flag.
Ships of the 1940 program should become repetition of "Hunt II" class. Successful using of torpedoes in early war period has jogged Admiralty on introduction of TT to armament of new ships, even by removing of one 102mm twin mount. Visually these ships differed from early series by straight lines of a mast and funnel. Partly stabilizers were not fitted and exempted volume of the hull was used for placing of an additional stock of fuel.
Modernizations: 1943, both: + 1 x 1 - 40/39 QF Mk VIII
Naval service: Eskdale 14.4.1943 at Cape Lizard has received two torpedo hits from German MTB S90: to bow and stern. Despite heavy damages some time she remained afloat, but, having received new torpedo hits from MTBs S112 and S65, has sunk.
Narvik 1953
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