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Tumult
R.11

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Destroyer ("T" Class)

24th Destroyer Flotilla

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Displacement 1,802 tons (2,530 tons full load)
Dimensions 339.5 (pp)/362.75 (oa) x 35.75 x 20.5d/10 (14.5 full load) feet
Machinery two Admiralty 3-drum boilers (300lb/in2 & 620ºF), two shafts, Parsons SR geared turbines, 40,000 SHP = 36 (32 full load) knots
Bunkers & radius OF 615 tons, 4,675 nm @ 20k
Armament 4 (4x1) - 4.7 inch DP, 2 (1x2) - 40 mm AA, 8 (4x2) - 20 mm AA guns, 8 (2x4) 21 inch TT
Complement 179 men
   
Builder (hull) John Brown & Co. (Clydebank)
Builder (engine) John Brown & Co. (Clydebank)
Laid down 16.11.1941
Launched 09.11.1942 by Miss Maureen Piggot
Completed 02.04.1943
Fate sold to W.H. Arnott Young in 1965 for scrapping at Dalmuir
   
Battle honours ?

 

Officers    
Commanding Officer
23.02.1943 - 12.1944
Lt.Cdr. N. Lanyon, RN
 
15.11.1944 - (04.1946)
Lt.Cdr. A.S. Pomeroy, RN  [actually assumed command probably mid-December 1944]
First Lieutenant
28.12.1942 - 09.1944
Lt. P.C. Carpenter, RN
 
01.10.1944 - (07.1945)
Lt. M.P. Vaux, RN
Others
 
Engineering Officer
12.09.1942 - 10.1944
Lt. (E) T.B. Garnett, RN
Engineering Officer
10.1944 - 05.1945?
Lt. (E) W.B.S. Milln, RNR
Engineering Officer
11.05.1945 - (07.1945)
Lt. (E) H.F. Chambers, RN
Medical Officer
03.1943 - 05.1943
Sg.Lt. W.L.P. Hewerdine, RNVR (died)
Medical Officer
15.05.1943 - 08.1944
[Prob.]T/Sg.Lt. D.R. Wallace, RNVR
Medical Officer
08.1944 - ?
Sg.Lt. W. Townsend, RNVR
Torpedo Officer
30.12.1942 - (06.1944)
Gnr. W.H. Rolf, RN
Torpedo Officer
01.02.1945 - (04.1946)
T/Gnr. T.J. Tyler, RN
?
04.02.1943 - 04.1944
Lt. J.D. Williams, RN
?
16.02.1943 - 07.1944
S.Lt. | Lt. D.L. Syms, RN
? [later: First Lieutenant ?]
11.09.1944 - (04.1946)
Lt. W.H. Price, RN
?
08.1944 - ?
Lt. A.J.S. Lee, RANVR
?
10.03.1943 - (12.1943)
T/S.Lt. F.M. Stott, RNVR
?
20.01.1944 - (06.1944)
S.Lt. P.J. Brooks, RN
?
16.02.1943 - (06.1944)
T/S.Lt. H.B. Bicket, RNVR
?
01.1944 - (07.1945)
T/S.Lt. | T/Lt. R.N. Beal, RNVR
?
20.06.1945 - (07.1945)
S.Lt. G.L.B. Gossage, RN
?
16.01.1945 - (07.1945)
T/S.Lt. W.L. Booker, RNVR
?
23.01.1945 - (07.1945)
T/A/S.Lt. T.P. Wess, RNVR
?
20.02.1945 - (04.1946)
T/A/S.Lt. | T/S.Lt. G.A. East, RNVR
?
01.1946 - (04.1946)
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) R.P. Hancock, RNVR
?
16.03.1943 - (06.1944)
[Prob.]T/Midsh. A.J. Norman, RNR
?
02.08.1943 - (12.1943)
Midsh. M.W. Mayo, RCN
?
02.08.1943 - (12.1943)
Midsh. V.J. Murphy, RCN
?
04.1944 - 09.1944
Midsh. I. McArthur, RNVR

Thanks to Jim Dunbar for providing the photo & information.