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HMS ''Albrighton'' was a Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She entered service in February 1942, carrying out convoy escort, patrol and anti-shipping attacks for most of the rest of the Second World War, and taking part in the Dieppe Raid and the Allied invasion of Normandy. In 1957, she was sold to the West German Navy, serving as a training ship until 1968. ==Construction== HMS ''Albrighton'' was ordered for the Royal Navy from the shipbuilder John Brown & Company on 4 July 1940, one of seven Type III Hunt-class destroyers ordered as part of the 1940 War Emergency Programme on that date.〔English 1987, p. 17.〕 The Hunt class was meant to fill the Royal Navy's need for a large number of small destroyer-type vessels capable of both convoy escort and operations with the fleet. The Type III Hunts differed from the previous Type II ships in replacing a twin 4-inch gun mount by two torpedo tubes to improve their ability to operate as destroyers.〔English 1987, pp. 7, 12.〕〔Lenton 1970, pp. 83, 85.〕 ''Albrighton'' was laid down at John Brown's Clydebank shipyard on 30 December 1940.〔 Construction was slowed by damage received during German air raids,〔English 1987, p. 27.〕 with the ship being launched on 11 October 1941 and commissioning on 22 February 1942.〔 ''Albrighton'' was long between perpendiculars and overall. The ship's beam was and draught . Displacement was standard and under full load. Two Admiralty boilers raising steam at and fed Parsons single-reduction geared steam turbines that drove two propeller shafts, generating at 380 rpm. This gave a speed of .〔Lenton 1970, p. 97.〕 of oil fuel were carried, giving a range of at .〔Whitley 2000, p. 147.〕 Main gun armament was four 4 inch (102 mm) QF Mk XVI dual purpose (anti-ship and anti-aircraft) guns in two twin mounts, with a quadruple 2-pounder "pom-pom" and three Oerlikon 20 mm cannon providing close-in anti-aircraft fire.〔Gardiner and Chesneau 1980, p. 47.〕〔Lenton 1970, pp. 97–98.〕 Like many of the Hunts, a single 2-pounder "pom-pom" was later mounted on the ship's bow for close-in combat with small fast vessels such as German E-boats.〔〔Lenton 1970, p. 85.〕 Two 21 inch (530 mm) torpedo tubes were fitted in a single twin mount, while two depth charge chutes, four depth charge throwers and 70 depth charges comprised the ship's anti-submarine armament. Type 291 and Type 285 radar was fitted, as was Type 128 sonar.〔〔English 1987, pp. 12–13.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Albrighton (L12)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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