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HMS ''Oakley'' was a Type II of the Royal Navy. She was originally to have been named ''Tickham'', however she was re-named after her sister ship ''Oakley'' was transferred to Poland and was re-named ORP Kujawiak (L72). She entered service in May 1943, carrying out convoy escort, patrol and anti-shipping attacks for most of the rest of the Second World War. She was adopted by the Civil community of Leighton Buzzard in Beforshire as part of Warship Week in 1942. In 1957, she was sold to the West German Navy, serving as a training ship for the German Naval Gunnery school until scrapped in 1972. ==Construction== HMS ''Oakley'' was ordered from Yarrows on 20 December 1939, one of 16 Type II Hunt-class destroyers ordered from various shipbuilders on that date, (including two from Yarrows).〔English 1987, p. 17.〕 The Hunts were 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 II Hunts differed from the earlier ships in having increased beam in order to improve stability and carry the ships' originally intended armament.〔English 1987, pp. 11–12.〕 The ship intended to be HMS ''Tickham'' was laid down at Yarrow's Scotstoun, Glasgow shipyard on 19 August 1940,〔 with construction being badly delayed by German bombing of the shipyard.〔English 1987, p. 87.〕 On 3 April 1941 it was agreed that the original ''Oakley'', under construction by Vickers-Armstrong on the Tyne, would be transferred to the Polish Navy as the , with ''Tickham'' being renamed ''Oakley'' in her place.〔English 1987, p. 73.〕 ''Oakley'' was launched on 15 January 1942 and completed on 7 May 1942.〔 ''Oakley'' 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. 89.〕 of oil were carried, giving a design range of (although in service use, this dropped to ).〔English 1987, p. 12.〕 The ship's main gun armament was six 4 inch (102 mm) QF Mk XVI dual purpose (anti-ship and anti-aircraft) guns in three twin mounts, with one mount forward and two aft. Additional close-in anti-aircraft armament was provided by a quadruple 2-pounder "pom-pom" mount and two single Oerlikon 20 mm cannon mounted in the bridge wings.〔Gardiner and Chesneau 1980, p. 47.〕〔Lenton 1970, pp. 85, 89.〕 Power-operated twin 20 mm Oerlikon mounts replaced the single Oerlikons during the war.〔Whitley 2000, p. 145.〕 Up to 110 depth charges could be carried.〔Lenton 1970, p. 87.〕〔Friedman 2008, p. 319.〕 The ship had a complement of 168 officers and men.〔〔 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 Oakley (L98)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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