HMS Maori (F24)
For other ships with the same name, see HMS Maori.
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HMS Maori underway
History
United Kingdom
Name: HMS Maori
Namesake: Māori people
Ordered: 10 March 1936
Builder: Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan
Cost: £340,622
Laid down: 6 July 1936
Launched: 2 September 1937
Completed: 30 November 1938
Commissioned: 2 January 1939
Identification: pennant number L24/F24/G24
Fate: Sunk, 12 February 1942
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type: Tribal-class destroyer
Displacement:
1,891 long tons (1,921 t) (standard)
2,519 long tons (2,559 t) (deep load)
Length: 377 ft (115 m) (o/a)
Beam: 36 ft 6 in (11.13 m)
Draught: 11 ft 3 in (3.43 m)
Installed power:
44,000 shp (33,000 kW)
3 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
Propulsion: 2 × shafts; 2 × geared steam turbines
Speed: 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range: 5,700 nmi (10,600 km; 6,600 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement: 190
Sensors and
processing systems: ASDIC
Armament:
4 × twin QF 4.7-inch (120 mm) Mk XII guns
1 × quadruple QF 2-pounder anti-aircraft guns
2 × quadruple QF .5-inch (12.7 mm) Mk III anti-aircraft machineguns
1 × quadruple 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
20 × depth charges, 1 × rack, 2 × throwers
HMS Maori was a Tribal-class destroyer named after the indigenous Māori people of New Zealand. She served with the Mediterranean Fleet until she was bombed and sunk by German aircraft while at Malta in 1942. Her wreck was later raised and scuttled outside the Grand Harbour. The wreck is now a dive site.
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