HMS Farndale

HMS Farndale, September 1943
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Farndale
Ordered	4 September 1939
Builder	Swan Hunter, Wallsend
Laid down	21 November 1939
Launched	30 September 1940
Completed	27 April 1941
Identification	Pennant number:L70
Honours and awards	Malta Convoys 1941 Mediterranean 1941 Libya 1942 Atlantic 1942 Arctic 1942 North Africa 1942–43 Sicily 1943 Salerno 1943 Aegean 1943 South France 1944 North Sea 1945
Fate	Scrapped, 1962
Badge	On a Field Red, a plate thereon a fox's head caboosed Red within an annulet Blue
General characteristics Type II
Displacement	1,050 long tons (1,070 t) standard 1,430 long tons (1,450 t) full load
Length	85.3 m (279 ft 10 in) o/a
Beam	9.6 m (31 ft 6 in)
Draught	2.51 m (8 ft 3 in)
Propulsion	2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers 2 shaft Parsons geared turbines, 19,000 shp (14,200 kW)
Speed	27 knots (31 mph; 50 km/h) 25.5 kn (29.3 mph; 47.2 km/h) full
Range	3,600 nmi (6,700 km) at 14 kn (26 km/h)
Complement	164
Armament	6 × QF 4 in Mark XVI guns on twin mounts Mk. XIX 4 × QF 2 pdr Mk. VIII on quad mount Mk. VII 2 × 20 mm Oerlikons on single mounts P Mk. III 110 depth charges, 2 throwers, 3 racks

HMS Farndale was a Type 2 Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy which served in World War II. She was scrapped in 1962. She was the only British warship so far to bear this name.