HMS Brecon (L76)

HMS Brecon at anchor (IWM)
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Brecon
Ordered	1940
Builder	Thornycroft, Woolston
Laid down	27 February 1941
Launched	27 June 1942
Commissioned	18 December 1942
Decommissioned	Paid off into reserve 12 December 1945
Motto	By luck and good guidance
Honours and awards	Atlantic 1943 Sicily 1943 Salerno 1943 South France 1943 Mediterranean 1944 Aegean 1944 English Channel 1945
Fate	Sold for scrapping to BISCO August 1961. Broken Up 1962 by Shipbreaking Industries, Faslane
Badge	On a Field Barry wavy of four Blue and White,a trumpet, gold.
General characteristics
Class and type	Type IV Hunt-class destroyer
Displacement	1,175 long tons (1,194 t) standard 1,561 long tons (1,586 t) full load
Length	90.22 m (296 ft 0 in) o/a
Beam	9.6 m (31 ft 6 in)
Draught	2.36 m (7 ft 9 in)
Propulsion	2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers 2 shaft Parsons geared turbines, 19,000 shp (14,000 kW)
Speed	26 knots (30 mph; 48 km/h) 25.5 kn (29.3 mph; 47.2 km/h) full
Range	950 nmi (1,760 km) at 25 kn (46 km/h)
Complement	170
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 4 × 0.5 in Vickers machine guns on twin mounts Mk. V, later replaced by 4 × 20 mm Oerlikons on twin mounts Mk. V 3 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes 40 depth charges, 2 throwers, 1 rack

HMS Brecon was a Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that saw service in World War II, one of two ships in the fourth subgroup of the class, built to a radically different design from other ships in the Hunt class.