HMS Talybont
HMS Talybont was a Type III Hunt Class Escort Destroyer who served in the Royal Navy. She was laid down on November 28, 1941 and sold for scrap on February 14, 1961.[1] She was involved with the Normandy Landings during World War 2, providing fire support for troops at Pointe Du Hoc. She laid fire support upon multiple German targets for almost three hours until disengaging at 7:10 in the morning[2]. She was sold for scrap for just under 20,000 pounds in 1961.
Construction
HMS Talybont was ordered for the Royal Navy from the shipbuilder John Brown & Company on 23 August 1940, one of 15 Type III Hunt-class destroyers ordered as part of the 1940 War Emergency Programme on that date.[3] The Hunt class was meant to fill the Royal Navy's need for a large number of small destroyer-type vessels capable of both convoy escort and operations with the fleet. The Type III Hunts differed from the previous Type II ships in replacing a twin 4-inch gun mount by two torpedo tubes to improve their ability to operate as destroyers.[4][5]
Talybont was laid down at J. Samuel White's Cowes, Isle of Wight shipyard on 28 November 1941.[3] German air raids on the shipyard slowed construction of the ship,[6] with Talybont not being launched until 3 February 1943 and commissioning on 19 May that year.[3][1]
Talybont was 264 feet 3 inches (80.54 m) long between perpendiculars and 280 feet (85.34 m) overall. The ship's beam was 31 feet 6 inches (9.60 m) and draught 7 feet 9 inches (2.36 m). Displacement was 1,050 long tons (1,070 t) standard and 1,490 long tons (1,510 t) under full load. Two Admiralty boilers raising steam at 300 pounds per square inch (2,100 kPa) and 620 °F (327 °C) fed Parsons single-reduction geared steam turbines that drove two propeller shafts, generating 19,000 shaft horsepower (14,000 kW) at 380 rpm. This gave a speed of 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph).[7] 345 long tons (351 t) of oil fuel were carried, giving a range of 3,700 nautical miles (6,900 km; 4,300 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph).[8]
Main gun armament was four 4 inch (102 mm) QF Mk XVI dual purpose (anti-ship and anti-aircraft) guns in two twin mounts, with a quadruple 2-pounder "pom-pom" and three Oerlikon 20 mm cannon providing close-in anti-aircraft fire.[9][7] The ship's anti-aircraft armament may have been supplemented by two Bofors 40 mm guns.[a] Two 21 inch (530 mm) torpedo tubes were fitted in a single twin mount, while two depth charge chutes, four depth charge throwers and 70 depth charges comprised the ship's anti-submarine armament. Type 291 and Type 285 radar was fitted, as was Type 128 sonar.[9][12]
Notes
References
- ^ Gary., Sterne,. The Cover-Up at Omaha Beach : D-Day, the US Rangers, and the Untold Story of Maisy Battery. [Place of publication not identified]. ISBN 9781629143286. OCLC 879371577.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ a b c English 1987, p. 17
- ^ English 1987, pp. 7, 12
- ^ Lenton 1970, pp. 83, 85
- ^ English 1987, p. 96
- ^ a b Lenton 1970, p. 97
- ^ Whitley 2000, p. 147
- ^ a b c Gardiner & Chesneau 1980, p. 46
- ^ Lenton 1970, p. 87
- ^ Friedman 2008, p. 70
- ^ English 1987, pp. 12–13
Publications
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
- Critchley, Mike (1982). British Warships Since 1945: Part 3: Destroyers. Liskeard, UK: Maritime Books. ISBN 0-9506323-9-2.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - English, John (1987). The Hunts: a history of the design, development and careers of the 86 destroyers of this class built for the Royal and Allied Navies during World War II. Kendal, UK: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-44-4.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Friedman, Norman (2008). British Destroyers and Frigates: The Second World War and After. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-015-4.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Gardiner, Robert; Chesneau, Roger, eds. (1980). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Lenton, H.T. (1970). Navies of the Second World War: British Fleet & Escort Destroyers Volume Two. London: Macdonald & Co. ISBN 0-356-03122-5.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Lenton, H. T.; Colledge, J. J. (1973). Warships of World War II (Second ed.). London: Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-0403-X.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Rohwer, Jürgen; Hümmelchen, Gerhard (1992). Chronology of the War at Sea 1939–1945. London: Greenhill Books. ISBN 1-85367-117-7.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Whitley, M.J. (2000). Destroyers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia. London: Cassell & Co. ISBN 1-85409-521-8.
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