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SHOREHAM and "Repeat SHOREHAM" sloops (FALMOUTH) (8, 1931 - 1933)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate Modification
Bideford L43 - U43   Devonport DYd 6.1930 1.4.1931 2.1932 sold 9.1947 "Shoreham"
Fowey L15 - U15   Devonport DYd 3.1930 4.11.1930 9.1931 sold 10.1946 "Shoreham"
Rochester L50 - U50   Chatham DYd 11.1930 16.7.1931 3.1932 depot ship early 1945, BU 1.1951 "Shoreham"
Shoreham L32 - U32   Chatham DYd 12.1929 22.11.1930 11.1931 sold 10.1946 "Shoreham"
Dundee L84 - U84   Chatham DYd 12.1931 20.9.1932 3.1933 sunk 15.9.1940 repeat "Shoreham"
Falmouth L34 - U34, 1948- F34   Devonport DYd 8.1931 19.4.1932 10.1932 RNVR drill ship Calliope 1.1952 repeat "Shoreham"
Milford L51 - U51, 1948- F...   Devonport DYd 9.1931 11.6.1932 12.1932 BU 6.1949 repeat "Shoreham"
Weston L72 - U72   Devonport DYd 9.1931 23.7.1932 2.1933 BU 5.1947 repeat "Shoreham"


Technical data


Max speed, kts, kn

16.5

Displacement standard, t

early 4: 1105

last 4: 1060

Displacement full, t

early 4: 1590

last 4: 1515

Length, m

85.8

Breadth, m

10.7

Draught, m

3.20 - 3.38 deep load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

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

Power, h. p.

2000

Fuel, t

oil 287 - 358

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

2 x 1 - 102/45 QF Mk V (1 HA), 4 x 1 - 47/40 3pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, mechanical minesweeping gear, 1 DCR (15)

Electronic equipmenttype 121 sonar
Complement

100



Standard scale images


<i>Shoreham</i> 1943
Shoreham 1943


Project history

The further development of Bridgewater class differed by some increased hull length. One of main guns was double-purpose. Shortly before a beginning of war second gun also was replaced by the mount with the big elevation angle. Under 1929 and 1930 Programmes 8 ships were built, the order for two ships was cancelled.

Modernizations

1933, Shoreham: - 1 x 1 - 102/45

1934, Shoreham: + 1 x 1 - 102/45 QF Mk V (HA)

1937-1939, all: - 1 x 1 - 102/45 (LA); + 1 x 1 - 102/45 QF Mk V (HA), 1 x 4 - 12.7/62

autumn 1939, all: - 4 x 1 - 47/40; + 2 DCT, DC stowage was increased up to 40

1939, Weston; 1940, Fowey, Rochester, Shoreham, Falmouth, Milford: + 1 x 4 - 12.7/62

1941, Bideford, Fowey, Rochester, Shoreham, Falmouth, Weston: + 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, type 286 radar

1941, Fowey: - type 286 radar; + type 291 radar

1941, Rochester: - type 286 radar; + type 271, type 291 radars

1941, Milford: + 4 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, type 286 radar

1942, Bideford, Falmouth: - type 286 radar; + 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, type 291 radar

1942, Fowey, Falmouth: + type 271 radar

1942, Shoreham: + 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV

1942, Milford: - type 286 radar; + 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, type 271, type 291 radars

1942, Weston: - type 286 radar; + 4 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, type 271, type 291 radars

1943, Bideford: + type 271 radar

1943, Fowey, Rochester: - 2 x 4 - 12.7/62, type 121 sonar; + 4 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog ASWRL, 2 DCT, 1 DCR, DC stowage was increased up to 90, type 144 sonar

1943, Shoreham: - type 286 radar; + 1 x 1 - 40/39 QF Mk II, type 271, type 291 radars

1943, Bideford, Rochester, Shoreham, Falmouth, Milford, Weston: + 2 DCT, 1 DCR, DC stowage increased up to 90

1945, Rochester: armed only with 7 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV

1945, Shoreham: + 1 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss Mk I

1/1946, Bideford, Falmouth: 2 x 1 - 102/45 HA Mk III, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 2 x 4 - 12.7/62, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (90), type 271, type 291 radars, type 121 sonar

1/1946, Fowey: 2 x 1 - 102/45 HA Mk III, 6 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog ASWRL, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (90), type 271, type 291 radars, type 144 sonar

1/1946, Shoreham: 1 x 1 - 102/45 HA Mk III, 1 x 1 - 40/39 Mk VIII, 3 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 2 x 4 - 12.7/62, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (90), type 271, type 291 radars, type 121 sonar

1/1946, Milford: 2 x 1 - 102/45 HA Mk III, 5 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 2 x 4 - 12.7/62, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (90), type 271, type 291 radars, type 121 sonar

1/1946, Weston: 2 x 1 - 102/45 HA Mk III, 6 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 2 x 4 - 12.7/62, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (90), type 271, type 291 radars, type 121 sonar

Naval service

In the beginning of 1945 Rochester was transferred to navigating school as the tender, main guns were landed. Dundee was sunk 15.9.1940 at coast of Ireland by German submarine U48.