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Talybont 1943

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Airedale	L07	578	John Brown, Clydebank	11.1940	12.8.1941	12.1941	sunk 15.6.1942
Albrighton	L12, 1948- F112	579	John Brown, Clydebank	12/1940	11.10.1941	2/1942	to West Germany 5.1959 (Raule)
Aldenham	L22	1077	Cammell Laird, Birkenhead	8.1940	27.8.1941	1.1942	sunk 14.12.1944
Belvoir	L32, 1948- F132	1078	Cammell Laird, Birkenhead	10.1940	18.11.1941	3.1942	BU 10.1957
Blean	L47	643	Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn	2.1941	15.1.1942	8.1942	sunk 11.12.1942
Bleasdale	L50, 1948- F150	30	Vickers-Armstrong, Tyne	10.1940	23.7.1941	4.1942	BU 9.1956
Bolebroke	L65	1643	Swan Hunter, Wallsend	4.1941	5.11.1941	6.1942 // ---	to Greece before completion 5.1942 (Πίνδος [Pindos])
Border	L67	1645	Swan Hunter, Wallsend	5.1941	3.2.1942	8/1942 // ---	to Greece before completion 5.1942 (Αδρίας [Adrias])
Catterick	L81	794	Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow	3.1941	22.11.1941	6.1942	to Greece 5.1946 (Άστιγξ [Astings])
Derwent	L83	793	Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow	12.1940	22.8.1941	4.1942	damaged 19.3.1943, never repaired, BU 1947
Easton	L09, 1948- F109	1916	White, Cowes	3.1941	11.7.1942	12.1942	BU 1.1953
Eggesford	L15, 1948- F15	1917	White, Cowes	6/1941	12.9.1942	1/1943	to West Germany 5.1959 (Brommy)
Eskdale	L36	1082	Cammell Laird, Birkenhead	1.1941	16.3.1942	7.1942 // ---	to Norway before completion 6.1942 (Eskdale)
Glaisdale	L44	1081	Cammell Laird, Birkenhead	2.1941	5.1.1942	6.1942 // ---	to Norway at completion 6.1942 (Glaisdale)
Goathland	L27	694	Fairfield, Govan	1.1941	3.2.1942	11.1942	CTL 24.7.1944, BU 1946
Haldon	L19	695	Fairfield, Govan	1.1941	27.4.1942	12.1942 // ---	to France at completion 12.1942 (La Combattante)
Hatherleigh	L53	33	Vickers-Armstrong, Tyne	12.1940	18.12.1941	8/1942 // ---	to Greece before completion 7.1942 (Κανάρης [Kanaris])
Haydon	L75, 1948- F75	34	Vickers-Armstrong, Tyne	5.1941	2.4.1942	10.1942	BU 5.1958
Holcombe	L56	589	A. Stephens, Linthouse	3.1941	14.4.1942	9.1942	sunk 12.12.1943
Limbourne	L57	590	A. Stephens, Linthouse	4.1941	12.5.1942	10.1942	sunk 23.10.1943
Melbreak	L73, 1948- F173	1647	Swan Hunter, Wallsend	6.1941	5.3.1942	10.1942	BU 11.1956
Modbury	L91	1649	Swan Hunter, Wallsend	8.1941	13.4.1942	11.1942 // ---	to Greece at completion 11.1942 (Μιαούλης [Miaoulis])
Penylan	L89	809	Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow	6.1941	17.3.1942	8.1942	sunk 3.12.1942
Rockwood	L39	810	Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow	8.1941	13.6.1942	11.1942	damaged 11.11.1943, never repaired, BU 1946
Stevenstone	L16, 1948- F16	1918	White, Cowes	9.1941	23.11.1942	3.1943	BU 9.1959
Talybont	L18, 1948- F118	1919	White, Cowes	11.1941	3.2.1943	5.1943	BU 3.1961
Tanatside	L69	1769	Yarrow, Scotstoun	6.1941	30.4.1942	9.1942	to Greece 5.1946 (Αδρίας [Adrias])
Wensleydale	L86	1770	Yarrow, Scotstoun	7.1941	20.6.1942	10.1942	damaged by collision 11.1944, never repaired, BU 1946

Technical data

Max speed, kts, kn	27
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
Fuel, t	oil 277 most later ships: 328
Endurance, nm(kts)	2100(20)
Armament	2 x 2 - 102/45 QF Mk XVI, 1 x 4 - 40/39 2pdr 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

Ships of the 1940 Programme 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

1942-1943, many: - type 286 radar; + type 291 radar

1943, Albrighton, Bleasdale, Eskdale, Glaisdale, Haldon, Stevenstone: + 1 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk VIII

1943-1944, some: - type 271 radar; + type 272 radar

1944, Aldenham, Wensleydale: - 1 x 1 - 20/70; + 2 x 2 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV

1945, Belvoir, Easton, Haldon, Melbreak, Talybont: - 3 x 1 - 20/70; + 2 x 1 - 40/56 Bofors Mk III

1945, Stevenstone: - 1 x 1 - 40/39, 3 x 1 - 20/70; + 2 x 1 - 40/56 Bofors Mk III

1/1946, Catterick, Eggesford, Haydon, Tanatside: 2 x 2 - 102/45 Mk XIX, 1 x 4 - 40/39 Mk VII, 3 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 1 x 2 - 533 TT, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (70), type 271 or type 272, type 285, type 291 radars, type 128 sonar

1/1946, Belvoir, Easton, Melbreak, Talybont, Stevenstone: 2 x 2 - 102/45 Mk XIX, 2 x 1 - 40/60 Mk III, 1 x 4 - 40/39 Mk VII, 1 x 2 - 533 TT, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (70), type 271 or type 272, type 285, type 291 radars, type 128 sonar

1/1946, Albrighton, Bleasdale: 2 x 2 - 102/45 Mk XIX, 1 x 4 - 40/39 Mk VII, 1 x 1 - 40/39 Mk VIII, 3 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 1 x 2 - 533 TT, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (70), type 271 or type 272, type 285, type 291 radars, type 128 sonar

Naval service

Airedale was sunk 15.6.1942 by German Ju 87 bombers at Malta, Penylan was sunk 3.12.1942 by German MTB S115 in La Manche. Blean was torpedoed 11.12.1942 at Gibraltar by German submarine U443. Eskdale was sunk by German MTBs 14.4.1943 at SW coast of England. Limbourne was sunk 23.10.1943 by torpedoes from German torpedo boats Т22 and T24 in La Manche. Holcombe 12.12.1943 was torpedoed by German submarine U593 at Algeria. Aldenham was lost 14.12.1944 on German mine at Pola. Derwent was badly damaged 19.3.1943 by an air torpedo and never repaired. Rockwood was badly damaged 11.11.1943 by German Hs 293 gliding bomb launched from Do 217 bomber (constructive total loss). Goathland 24.6.1944 was stricken at coast of Normandy by German mine and never repaired. Wensleydale in November, 1944 was stricken as constructive total loss as a result of collision. Belvoir was badly damaged by a mine late 1943 but subsequently repaired.

Ships of class were reclassified to frigates in 1947.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.