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CRESCENT destroyers (1945)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Crescent DDE226   John Brown, Clydebank, UK 9.1943 20.7.1944 9.1945 BU 4.1971
Crusader DDE228   John Brown, Clydebank, UK 11.1943 5.10.1944 11.1945 BU 1965


Technical data


Data variantas completed type 15 frigate
Displacement standard, t

1710 - 1730 nominal

2240

Displacement full, t

2510 - 2535

2850

Length, m

103.5 pp 110.6 oa

103.5 pp 109.2 oa

Breadth, m

10.9

10.9

Draught, m

4.34 - 4.39

4.20 - 4.30

No of shafts

2

2

Machinery

2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers

2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers

Power, h. p.

40000

40000

Max speed, kts

36.75

36.75

Fuel, t

oil 588

Endurance, nm(kts)4675(20)

3000 (20)

Armament

4 x 1 - 114/45 QF Mk IV, 1 x 2 - 40/56 Bofors Mk VIII/IX, (2 x 1 - 40/56 Bofors Mk III or 2 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk VIII or 2 x 2 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV), 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 1 x 4 - 533 TT, 2 DCT, 2 DCR (35 - 108 DC)

1 x 2 - 102/45 Mk 19, 1 x 2 - 76/50 Mk 22, 2 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 9, 2 x 3 - 305 Limbo Mk 10 ASWRL

Electronic equipment

type 275, type 291, type 293 radars, type 144Q sonar

type 278, type 262, type 293 and / or US radars, type 170, type 174 sonar
Complement

186 - 222

195



Standard scale images


<i>Crescent</i> 1945
Crescent 1945
similar<i> Algonquin</i> 1967
similar Algonquin 1967


Project history

"Са" class development with new DP fire control system (it is similar to applied on "Battle" class). Because of its big weight one TT bank was necessary to remove and weaken anti-submarine armament. Contest became the first  British fully-welded destroyer.

Modernizations

1956, Crescent was converted to type 15 frigate, as given in the table. She has taken fully new silhouette, forecastle was enlarged and new aluminium alloy superstructure fitted.

Naval service

No significant events.