NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Jutland		667	Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn	8.1944	2.11.1945	---	cancelled 12.1945
Poictiers		669	Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn	2/1945	4.1.1946	---	cancelled 12.1945
River Platte		1717	Swan Hunter, Wallsend	4.1945	---	---	cancelled 12.1945
St. Lucia		605	A. Stephens, Linthouse	12.1945	---	---	cancelled 12.1945
Somme		1155	Cammell Laird, Birkenhead	2.1945	---	---	cancelled 12.1945
Talavera		617	John Brown, Clydebank	8/1944	27.8.1945	---	cancelled 12.1945
Trincomalee		618	John Brown, Clydebank	2.1945	8.1.1946	---	cancelled 12.1945
Waterloo		716	Fairfield, Govan	6.1945	---	---	cancelled 12.1945
Tobruk (RAN)	D37		Cockatoo DYd, Australia	8.1946	20.12.1947	5.1950	BU 2.1972
Anzac (RAN)	D59		Williamstown DYd, Australia	9.1946	20.8.1948	3.1951	TS 1966, BU 11.1975

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	2440
Displacement full, t	3450
Length, m	108.2 pp 115.5 oa
Breadth, m	12.5
Draught, m	4.67 deep load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
Power, h. p.	50000
Max speed, kts	35.75
Fuel, t	oil 727, diesel oil 40
Endurance, nm(kts)	4400(20)
Armament	2 x 2 - 120/45 Mk 6, 3 x 2 - 40/60 STAAG Mk 2, 5 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 7, 2 x 5 - 533 TT, 1 x 3 - 305 Squid Mk 4 ASWRL
Electronic equipment	3x type 262, type 277, type 291, type 293, type 903 radars, type 170, type 174 sonars
Complement	332

Standard scale images

Project history

Ships of 3rd group were beamier as previous for improving of stability and were armed by new 114mm (really 120mm) Mk V guns. Only two Australian ships were completed. Cammell Laird's Vimeira and Fairfield's Ypres were never really laid down.

Modernizations

None

Naval service

Anzac was converted to TS in 1966, "B" turret, all twin and one single Boforses were removed.

Many thanks to Borys Estrin for additional information on this page.