HMS Meteor (G73)
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Meteor |
Ordered | 7 July 1939 |
Builder | Alexander Stephen and Sons, Linthouse, Scotland |
Laid down | 14 September 1940 |
Launched | 3 November 1941 |
Completed | 12 August 1942 |
Fate | Sold to the Turkish Navy on 29 June 1959, renamed Piyale Pasha |
Notes | Pennant number G74 |
History | |
Turkey | |
Name | Piyale Pasha |
Acquired | 29 June 1959 |
Fate | Discarded 1979? |
General characteristics as completed | |
Class and type | M-class destroyer |
Displacement | list error: <br /> list (help) 1,920 long tons (1,950 t) (standard) 2,660 long tons (2,700 t) (deep) |
Length | 362 ft 3 in (110.4 m) o/a |
Beam | 37 ft (11.3 m) |
Draught | 10 ft (3.0 m) |
Installed power | 48,000 shp (36,000 kW) |
Propulsion | list error: <br /> list (help) 2 × shafts 2 × Parsons geared steam turbines 2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers |
Speed | 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph) |
Range | 5,500 nmi (10,200 km; 6,300 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 190 |
Sensors and processing systems | list error: <br /> list (help) ASDIC Type 285 anti-aircraft (AA) radar Type 286M air warning radar |
Armament | list error: <br /> list (help) 3 × 2 - 4.7 in (120 mm) Mark XI dual purpose guns 1 × 1 - 4-inch Mark V AA gun |
HMS Meteor was a M-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during World War II.
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References
- 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.
- English, John (2001). Afridi to Nizam: British Fleet Destroyers 1937–43. Gravesend, UK: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-95-0.
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value: checksum (help) - Friedman, Norman (2006). British Destroyers & Frigates: The Second World War and After. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-86176-137-6.
- Lenton, H. T. (1998). British & Commonwealth Warships of the Second World War. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-048-7.
- 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 2. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-326-1.
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