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Specification Evarts Class

Length

289.5 feet (overall)

Beam

35.0 feet

Draught

9.0 feet (fully loaded)

Displacement

1,360 tons (fully loaded)

Propellers

2off Solid Manganese Bronze 8.5 feet each

Rudders

2off

Bunkers and Radius

126 tons(Oil Fuel) 5,000 miles at 15 knots

Maximum Speed

19 knots(Many ships were capable of (21/22knots)

Main Guns

3 x 3 inch/50 Mk22 Dual purpose open mounts and fired fixed shot (anti-aircraft, armour piercing or starshell) and had a range of 14,600 yards at 45 degrees and an anti aircraft ceiling of 28,000 feet.

Anti aircraft Guns

7 x 20mm single mount Oerlikon cannon positioned one in front of the bridge behind and above B gun also one each side of B gun in pods and two each side of the ship in pods just abaft the funnel (some of the ships had an extra Oerlikon fitted on top of the superstructure midships, the odd ship had a twin 40mm Bofas gun instead of the extra Oerlikon.

Hedgehog

British designed ahead throwing mortar which fired 24 bombs ahead of the ship, this was situated between A and B guns.

Depth Charges

Approximately 200 depth charges were carried. Two sets of double rails at the stern held 24 per set. Two K gun throwers each holding five charges were situated each side of the ship just forward of the aft depth charge rails. Just forward of these, double ready rails extending to midships were fitted each side of the ship holding approximately sixty charges per side (these ready rails were added after the ships arrived back in the U.K.

Radar

Type SL Surface search fixed to mast above yard arm and type SA Air search only fitted to certain ships.

Asdic (Sonar)

Type128D or Type 144 both in retractable dome.

Direction Finding

MF Direction Finding antenna fitted in front of the bridge and HF/DF Type FH 4 antenna fitted on top of mast.