HMS Fleetwood (U47)

Fleetwood in 1944
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Fleetwood
Ordered	1 March 1935
Builder	Devonport Dockyard
Laid down	14 August 1935
Launched	24 March 1936
Completed	19 November 1936
Fate	Scrapped 1959
General characteristics
Class and type	Grimsby-class sloop
Displacement	990 long tons (1,010 t) standard
Length	266 ft 3 in (81.15 m) o/a
Beam	36 ft (11.0 m)
Draught	9 ft 6 in (2.90 m) (full load)
Propulsion	Two Admiralty 3-drum water-tube boilers Parsons geared steam turbines Two shafts 2,000 shp (1,500 kW)
Speed	16.5 kn (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph)
Range	6,000 nmi (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	100
Armament	4 × 4 inch (102 mm) Mark V guns (2 twin mounts) 4 × 3-pounder guns 1 × Vickers .50 machine gun (1 quadruple mount)

HMS Fleetwood was a Grimsby-class sloop of the Royal Navy. Built at Devonport Dockyard in the 1930s, Fleetwood was launched in March 1936 and commissioned in November that year. She served in the Red Sea until the outbreak of the Second World War. Fleetwood served as a convoy escort during the war, which she survived, and sank the German submarines U-528 and U-340. Post-war, the ship served as a radar training ship, remaining in use until 1959, when she was scrapped.