HMS Bedouin (F67)
HMS Bedouin at Hvalfjörður, Iceland | |
History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name: | Bedouin |
Namesake: | Bedouin |
Ordered: | 19 June 1936 |
Builder: | William Denny, Dumbarton |
Cost: | £340,400 |
Laid down: | 13 January 1937 |
Launched: | 21 December 1937 |
Completed: | 15 March 1939 |
Identification: | Pennant number: L67, later F67 |
Fate: | Sunk, 15 June 1942 |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Class and type: | Tribal-class destroyer |
Displacement: | |
Length: | 377 ft (115 m) (o/a) |
Beam: | 36 ft 6 in (11.13 m) |
Draught: | 11 ft 3 in (3.43 m) |
Installed power: |
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Propulsion: | 2 × shafts; 2 × geared steam turbines |
Speed: | 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph) |
Range: | 5,700 nmi (10,600 km; 6,600 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement: | 190 |
Sensors and processing systems: | ASDIC |
Armament: |
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HMS Bedouin was a Tribal-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service in World War II. She was launched on 21 December 1937 by William Denny and Brothers.
Trials
During her trials Bedouin made 37.457 knots (69.370 km/h; 43.105 mph) at 372.4 RPM with 44,522 shp (33,200 kW) at 2,035 long tons (2,068 t).[1]
Service history
She served in the Second Battle of Narvik, where she was slightly damaged, and in the 1941 commando raid on the Lofoten islands. During the Battle of Mid-June, she was sunk by the combined action of Italian cruisers Raimondo Montecuccoli and Eugenio di Savoia and an SM.79 torpedo bomber on 15 June 1942. She was hit by at least 12 six-inch rounds and near-misses from the cruisers and an aerial torpedo before sinking. Bedouin managed to shoot down the torpedo bomber which delivered the coup de grâce to her. 28 men from her complement were killed in action and 213 were taken as prisoners of war by the Italian Navy.
Notes
- ↑ March, p.362
References
- Brice, Martin H. (1971). The Tribals. London: Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-0245-2.
- English, John (2001). Afridi to Nizam: British Fleet Destroyers 1937–43. Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-64-9.
- Friedman, Norman (2006). British Destroyers and Frigates, the Second World War and After. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-86176-137-6.
- Haarr, Geirr H. (2010). The Battle for Norway: April–June 1940. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-59114-051-1.
- Haarr, Geirr H. (2009). The German Invasion of Norway, April 1940. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-59114-310-9.
- Hodges, Peter (1971). Tribal Class Destroyers. London: Almark. ISBN 0-85524-047-4.
- Lenton, H. T. (1998). British & Empire Warships of the Second World War. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-048-7.
- March, Edgar J. (1966). British Destroyers: A History of Development, 1892-1953; Drawn by Admiralty Permission From Official Records & Returns, Ships' Covers & Building Plans. London: Seeley Service. OCLC 164893555.
- Rohwer, Jürgen (2005). Chronology of the War at Sea 1939–1945: The Naval History of World War Two (Third Revised ed.). Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-119-2.
- Whitley, M. J. (1988). Destroyers of World War Two. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-326-1.
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Coordinates: 36°12′0″N 11°38′0″E / 36.20000°N 11.63333°E