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Last update:
06/15/2008
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HMS Saumarez |
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Scale 1:200 |
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Author: Adrian Kacz |
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File Size: 58.7Mb |
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HMS
Saumarez
S-Class fleet destroyer
as she appeared in 1943
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Model # 012 |
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Price $12.00 |
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Technical data: |
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Launched |
November 20,
1942, completed in June 1943 |
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Displacement |
1,710 tons standard; 2,530 full-load.
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Length |
362.75ft |
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Beam |
35.75ft |
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Machinery |
Two sets of Parsons geared turbines; 40,000 hp = 36 knots |
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Armament |
Main
- four 4.5inch |
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AAA - 2 x I 40mm
Haemayer mounts; 4 x II 20mm Oerlikon |
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Torpedoes - eight (2x4) 21inch tubes |
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Complement |
183 officers and
enlisted |
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In
August of 1943, HMS Saumarez
escorted liner Queen Mary
taking Winston Churchill to Canada. After the return from this trip,
she was transferred to arctic convoy duty. On December 26th,
Saumarez, while in the
escort of convoy JW-55B, was one of the four 'S' Class destroyers, which
played such a gallant part in the sinking of the
Scharnhorst.
Entire year 1944 she continued to assist in the escort of Russian
convoys and took part in attacks on enemy shipping off the Norwegian
coast. In June she helped cover the landings in Normandy, and remained
on patrol in the Dover Strait during July and August. At the beginning
of 1945, HMS Saumarez was
transferred to the Eastern Fleet in the Indian Ocean where she became a
flagship of 26 Destroyer Flotilla. During the night of May 15, 1945,
Saumarez took part in the
sinking of the heavy cruiser IJN Haguro
in the Malacca Strait.
After the war’s end, HMS Saumarez
was transferred to the Mediterranean. On October 22, 1946 she struck
Albanian mine in international waters of Corfu Channel, which Albania
treated as territorial waters. HMS Volage
also struck a mine but was able to tow heavily damaged
Saumarez to Malta.
HMS
Saumarez
never returned to active duty and was sold for scrap on September 8,
1950. |
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Model built and photographed by Adrian Kacz, used with
permission.
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