NAVYPEDIA

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 equipment	type 121 sonar
Complement	100

Standard scale images

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.