HMS Kempenfelt (I18)

HMS Kempenfelt in August 1933
History
United Kingdom
NameKempenfelt
NamesakeRear Admiral Richard Kempenfelt
Awarded15 July 1930
BuilderJ. Samuel White, Cowes
Laid down18 October 1930
Launched29 October 1931
Completed30 May 1932
FateTransferred to Royal Canadian Navy, 19 October 1939
Canada
NameAssiniboine
NamesakeAssiniboine River
Commissioned19 October 1939
Decommissioned8 August 1945
MottoFideliter (Latin: "Faithfully")
Nickname(s)"Bones"
Honours and
awards
Atlantic 1939-45, Biscay 1944, English Channel 1944-45[1]
Fate
  • Sold for scrapping but wrecked en route to breakers on 10 November 1945
  • Wreck broken up in situ in 1952
BadgeBadge: On a field Black a Sword proper between two wings greenover two wavelets Silver and Blue.
General characteristics
Displacement
  • 1,390 long tons (1,412 t) (standard)
  • 1,901 long tons (1,932 t) (deep)
Length329 ft (100.3 m) o/a
Beam33 ft (10.1 m)
Draught12 ft 6 in (3.8 m)
Installed power36,000 shp (27,000 kW)
Propulsion
Speed36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range5,500 nmi (10,200 km; 6,300 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement145
Armament

HMS Kempenfelt was a C-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s. A flotilla leader, she saw service in the Home Fleet before World War II and the ship made several deployments to Spanish waters during the Spanish Civil War, enforcing the arms blockade imposed by Britain and France on both sides of the conflict.

Kempenfelt was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) in 1939 and renamed HMCS Assiniboine. During World War II, she served as a convoy escort in the battle of the Atlantic, sinking one German submarine by ramming, on anti-submarine patrols during the invasion of Normandy, and was employed as a troop transport after VE Day for returning Canadian servicemen, before being decommissioned in mid-1945.

Assiniboine was sold for scrap in 1945, but she ran aground while being towed to the breakers and was not broken up until 1952.

  1. ^ "Battle Honours". Britain's Navy. Retrieved 18 September 2013.