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Narvik 1953

Ships

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

Technical data

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
Endurance, nm(kts)	2100(20)
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)
Electronic equipment	type 271 (some), type 285, type 286 radars, type 128 sonar
Complement	168

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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.