HMS Stevenstone was a Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was a member of the third subgroup of the class, and saw service in the Second World War. All the ships of this class were named after British fox hunts. She was the first Royal Navy warship with this name, after the Stevenstone hunt in Devon.[1]
 Stevenstone at anchor in the Solent
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Stevenstone |
| Ordered | 23 August 1940 |
| Builder | J. Samuel White, East Cowes, Isle of Wight |
| Laid down | 2 September 1941 |
| Launched | 23 November 1942 |
| Commissioned | 18 March 1943 |
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| Fate | Scrapped in 1959 |
| Badge | On a Field per fess wavy Blue and White a cubit arm vested blue charged with a fesse indented and double cotised Gold, the hand proper grasping a horn also Gold. |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Hunt-class destroyer |
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| Length | 85.3 m (279 ft 10 in) o/a |
| Beam | 10.16 m (33 ft 4 in) |
| Draught | 3.51 m (11 ft 6 in) |
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| Range | 2,350 nmi (4,350 km) at 20 kn (37 km/h) |
| Complement | 168 |
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In 1946 and 1947 Stevenstone was part of the 3rd Destroyer Flotilla based in the Mediterranean and was repaired in Chatham in 1948. She was subsequently sold for scrap and arrived at the ship breakers in Dunston on 2 September 1959[2]
References
edit- ^ Smith, Gordon (2011). "HMS Stevenstone, escort destroyer". naval-history.net. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
- ^ Critchley, Mike, "British Warships Since 1945: Part 3: Destroyers", Maritime Books: Liskeard, UK, 1982. ISBN 0-9506323-9-2, page 44
Sources
edit- Colledge, J. J. & Warlow, Ben, Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present, Newbury, 2010
- English, John, 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, Cumbria, 1987 (World Ship Society)
- Whitley, M. J., Destroyers of World War Two - an international encyclopedia, London, 1988
- Gardiner, Robert (ed.), Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946, London, 1987
Further reading
editWikimedia Commons has media related to HMS Stevenstone (L16).
- Whitby, Michael (2022). "The Challenges of Operation 'Tunnel', September 1943 — April 1944". In Jordan, John (ed.). Warship 2022. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. pp. 29–46. ISBN 978-1-4728-4781-2.