"P" class Utility Destroyers
 
Name Pennant Builder Completed Fate
Pakenham,
ex-Onslow		 G06 Hawthorn Leslie 4/2/42 Sunk by HMS Paladin after damage from Italian T.B's Cigno and
Cassiopea. 16/4/43
Paladin G69 John Brown 12/12/41 Scrapped 1962
Panther G41 Fairfield 12/12/41 Bombed and sunk by Luftwaffe, 9/10/43
Partridge G30 Fairfield 22/2/42 Torpedoed and sunk by U/565, 18/12/42
Pathfinder,
ex-Onslaught		 G10 Hawthorn Leslie 13/4/42 Damaged by IJN planes 11/2/45, used as air target, scrapped 1948
Penn G77 Vickers-Armstrongs 10/2/42 Scrapped 1950
Petard G56 Vickers-Armstrongs 15/6/42 Scrapped 1967
Porcupine G93 Vickers-Armstrongs 31/8/42 Torpedoed and by U602 and broke back. Towed in two halves to UK
and each half hulked, as Pork and Pine, (!) scrapped 1947

* - Flotilla leaders

1:600 "P" class. Note the absence of shields on "Q" and "Y" guns. The carriage of 4" guns allowed a HA/LA DCT to be carried instead of the seperate low and high angle directors for the 4.7" guns. © Andrew Arthur.

These ships were, apart from armament, 100% identical to the "O" class, but for AA duties ( and the greater topweight of the 4.7" guns ) , the readily available single 4" AA gun was shipped instead of the LA 4.7" of the "O". They never carried the after torpedo tubes, a 4" AA being shipped instead, until the last 4 ( Pathfinder, Penn, Petard & Porcupine ) later re-shipped the tubes instead of the gun.
The wing 20mm AA were later paired.
"Q" and "Y" 4" guns carried no sheilds.

Dimensions
Full Displacement 1640 tons Length 345'
Empty Displacement 2250 tons Beam 35'
Load 610 tons Draft 12.25'

 

Performance & Propulsion
Machinery 2 x Admirality 3 drum boilers, 2 x Parsons geared steam rurbines @ 40000 hp
Speed 36.75 kts, 32 kts full Range 3850 nm @ 20 kts.

 

Armament & Complement
Complement 176 Officers & Ratings, 228 in Flotilla Leaders
Armament
  • Gun
    • 5 x 1 x 4" AA
    • 1 x 4 x 2pdr pom-pom AA
    • 4 x 1 x 20mm AA ( later 2 x 2 x and 2 x 1 x )
    • 2 x 1 x 0.303" MG AA
  • Torpedoes
    • 1 x 4 x 21" tubes
  • ASW
    • 4 x DC lobbers
    • 2 x DC rails
    • 70 DC's
 
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