- Description
- Construction and career
- Notes
- References
- External links
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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United Kingdom | UK|naval}} | Ship name=HMS Kipling | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=Yarrow, Scotstoun | Ship laid down=20 October 1937 | Ship launched=19 January 1939 | Ship christened= | Ship commissioned= 12 December 1939 | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified= | Ship refit= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship honours= | Ship identification=Pennant number: F91 | 32|23|24|N|26|11|24|E|display=inline, title}} | Ship status=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption=(as built) | Ship class=K-class destroyer | 1690|LT|t}} (standard)- {{convert|2330|LT|t}} (deep load)
| 356|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} o/a | 35|ft|9|in|m|abbr=on}} | 12|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} (deep) | 44000|shp|kW|lk=in|abbr=on}}- 2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
| Ship propulsion=2 × shafts; 2 × geared steam turbines | 36|kn|lk=in}} | 5500|nmi|lk=in|abbr=on}} at {{convert|15|kn}} | Ship complement=183 (218 for flotilla leaders) | Ship sensors=ASDIC | Ship armament=- 3 × twin QF 4.7-inch (120 mm) Mk XII guns
- 1 × quadruple QF 2-pounder (40 mm) anti-aircraft guns
- 2 × quadruple QF 0.5-inch (12.7 mm) Mk III anti-aircraft machineguns
- 2 × quintuple 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 20 × depth charges, 1 × rack, 2 × throwers
}} | HMS Kipling (F91) was a K-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s. DescriptionThe K-class destroyers were repeats of the preceding J class, except that they were not fitted for minesweeping gear. They displaced {{convert|1690|LT|t}} at standard load and {{convert|2330|LT|t}} at deep load. The ships had an overall length of {{convert|339|ft|6|in|m|1}}, a beam of {{convert|35|ft|m|1}} and a draught of {{convert|9|ft|m|1}}. They were powered by two Parsons geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft, using steam provided by two Admiralty three-drum boilers. The turbines developed a total of {{convert|40000|shp|lk=in}} and gave a maximum speed of {{convert|36|kn|lk=in}}. The ships carried a maximum of {{convert|484|LT|t}} of fuel oil that gave them a range of {{convert|5500|nmi|lk=in}} at {{convert|15|kn}}. The ships' complement was 183 officers and men.[1] The ships were armed with six 4.7-inch (120 mm) Mark XII guns in twin mounts, two superfiring in front of the bridge and one aft of the superstructure. For anti-aircraft (AA) defence, they had one quadruple mount for 2-pounder "pom-pom" guns and two quadruple mounts for the 0.5 inch Vickers Mark III anti-aircraft machinegun. The K-class ships were fitted with two above-water quintuple mounts for {{convert|21|in|adj=on|0}} torpedoes.[2] The ship was fitted with two depth charge throwers and one rack for 20 depth charges.[1] Construction and careerHMS Kipling, named after the author and poet Rudyard Kipling, was laid down by Yarrow, Scotstoun on 20 October 1937, launched on 19 January 1939, by Kipling's daughter, and commissioned on 12 December 1939. On 11 October 1940, Kipling, along with another six destroyers, escorted the battleship HMS Renown to bombard the French port of Cherbourg. On 17 December 1941, she was lightly damaged by splinters from a 203 mm round from the Italian cruiser Gorizia during the First Battle of Sirte.[3] The British assessment concluded instead that Kipling was hit by near-misses from 305 mm shells fired by the battleships Andrea Doria and Giulio Cesare. Her wireless aerials were knocked down, her structure, hull and attached boats holed. One crewmember was killed in action.[4] On 28 December 1941 Kipling sank the German submarine {{GS|U-75|1940|2}}. Kipling was attacked by German Ju 88 bombers of Lehrgeschwader 1 north-west of Mersa Matruh in Egypt on 11 May 1942 and sunk by Joachim Helbig. 29 of her crew were killed and 221 men were rescued.[5] Notes1. ^1 Lenton, p. 167
2. ^Whitley, p. 117
3. ^Bragadin, p. 149
4. ^{{Cite web|title = H.M. Ships Damaged or Sunk by Enemy Action in WWII|url = http://www.navy.gov.au/media-room/publications/hm-ships-damaged-or-sunk-enemy-action-wwii|website = www.navy.gov.au|access-date = 2016-02-14|first = corporateName=Royal Australian|last = Navy}}
5. ^http://uboat.net/forums/read.php?22,65862,90424,quote=1
References- Bragadin, Marc'Antonio: The Italian Navy in World War II, United States Naval Institute, Annapolis, 1957. {{ISBN|0-405-13031-7}}
- {{Colledge}}
- {{cite book|last=English|first=John|title=Afridi to Nizam: British Fleet Destroyers 1937–43|publisher=World Ship Society|location=Gravesend, Kent|year=2001|isbn=0-905617-64-9}}
- {{cite book|last=Friedman|first=Norman|title=British Destroyers & Frigates: The Second World War and After|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, Maryland|date=2006|isbn=1-86176-137-6}}
- {{cite book|last=Haarr|first=Geirr H.|title=The Battle for Norway: April–June 1940|year=2010|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, MD|isbn=978-1-59114-051-1}}
- {{cite book|last=Haarr|first=Geirr H.|title=The German Invasion of Norway, April 1940|year=2009|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, Maryland|isbn=978-1-59114-310-9}}
- {{cite book|last=Langtree|first=Charles|title=The Kelly's: British J, K, and N Class Destroyers of World War II |year=2002|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, Maryland|isbn=1-55750-422-9}}
- {{cite book|last=Lenton|first=H. T.|authorlink=Henry Trevor Lenton|title=British & Empire Warships of the Second World War|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, Maryland|year=1998|isbn=1-55750-048-7}}
- {{cite book|last=March|first=Edgar J.|title=British Destroyers: A History of Development, 1892–1953; Drawn by Admiralty Permission From Official Records & Returns, Ships' Covers & Building Plans|year=1966|publisher=Seeley Service|location=London |OCLC=164893555}}
- {{cite book|last=Rohwer|first=Jürgen|title=Chronology of the War at Sea 1939–1945: The Naval History of World War Two|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, Maryland|year=2005|edition=Third Revised|isbn=1-59114-119-2}}
- {{cite book|last=Whitley|first=M. J.|title=Destroyers of World War 2|publisher=Naval Institute Press|date=1988|isbn=0-87021-326-1|location=Annapolis, Maryland}}
- {{cite book|last=Winser|first=John de D.|title=B.E.F. Ships Before, At and After Dunkirk|publisher=World Ship Society|location=Gravesend, Kent|date=1999|isbn=0-905617-91-6}}
External links{{Commons category|HMS Kipling (F91)}}- HMS Kipling (F91)
- HMS Kipling (F91) @ uboat.net
- IWM Interview with survivor Len Chivers
- IWM Interview with survivor Eric Clark
- IWM Interview with survivor John Bainbridge
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