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{{Other ships|HMS Cleveland}}{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2018}}{{Use British English|date=January 2018}}{{Infobox ship image| Ship image=HMS Cleveland 1942 IWM FL 1978.jpg | Ship caption=HMS Cleveland in Plymouth Sound, October 1942
}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | United Kingdom}} | UK|naval}} | Ship name= HMS Cleveland | Ship namesake= | Ship ordered=21 March 1939 | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=Yarrow Shipbuilders, Glasgow | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number=Admiralty Job No.1835 | Ship way number= | Ship laid down=7 July 1939 | Ship launched=24 April 1940 | Ship completed=18 September 1940 | Ship commissioned= | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship refit= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship homeport= | Ship identification=pennant number: L46 | Ship badge=On a Field per fess wavy Red and Blue, upon a White roundel a huntsman's cap Black in front of a stirrup Red. | Ship nickname= | Ship honours=*Basque Roads 1809- Atlantic 1942
- English Channel 1942
- North Sea 1943
- Sicily 1943
- Salerno 1943
- South France 1944
- Aegean 1944
- Adriatic 1944
| Ship captured= | Ship fate=Scrapped in December 1959 | Ship status= | Ship notes=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Ship class=Type I Hunt-class destroyer | 1000|LT|t}} standard- {{convert|1340|LT|t}} full load
| 85|m|ftin|abbr=on}} o/a | 8.8|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | Ship height= | 3.27|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | Ship propulsion=*2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers- 2 shaft Parsons geared turbines, 19,000 shp
| 27.5|kn|mph km/h|lk=in}}- {{convert|26|kn|mph km/h|abbr=on}} full
| 3500|nmi|km|abbr=on|lk=in}} at {{convert|15|kn|km/h|abbr=on}}- {{convert|1000|nmi|km|abbr=on}} at {{convert|26|kn|km/h|abbr=on}}
| Ship endurance= | Ship boats= | Ship complement=146 | Ship sensors= | Ship EW= | Ship armament=- 4 × QF {{convert|4|in|mm|adj=on|0}} Mark XVI guns on twin mounts Mk. XIX
- 4 × QF 2-pounder (40 mm) Mk VIII AA guns on quad mount MK.VII
- 2 × 20-mm Oerlikon AA guns on single mounts P Mk. III
- 40 depth charges, 2 throwers, 1 rack
| Ship armour= | Ship notes=
}} | HMS Cleveland (L46) was a Type I Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy built by Yarrow Shipbuilders of Scotstoun, and launched on 24 April 1940. She was adopted by the civil community of Middlesbrough then in the North Riding of Yorkshire, as part of the Warship Week campaign in 1942. Service historyOn commissioning in 1940 she completed work ups for service in home waters, both the North Sea and the English Channel, which continued throughout 1941 and 1942. During April 1943, she was nominated for service in the Mediterranean. During that year she provided cover for the Allied landings in Italy on Sicily (Operation Husky) and at Salerno (Operation Avalanche). During 1944 she was again deployed in the Mediterranean and in the Aegean Sea. On 29 September 1945, Cleveland steamed from Gibraltar to Devonport and was placed in reserve.[1] She was sold for scrapping and was wrecked at Llangennith, Glamorgan, Wales, on the Gower Peninsula near Swansea on 28 June 1957 while under tow to Llanelli, Wales, for scrapping.[2] en route to the breakers yard. The wreck was stripped and blown up on 14 December 1959. References1. ^Critchley, Mike, "British Warships Since 1945: Part 3: Destroyers", Maritime Books: Liskeard, UK, 1982. {{ISBN|0-9506323-9-2}}, page 29
2. ^{{Cite newspaper The Times |articlename=Failure To Refloat Former Destroyer |day_of_week=Tuesday |date=27 August 1957 |page_number=4 |issue=53930 |column=B }}
PublicationsExternal links- Profile on naval-history.net
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