BUCKLEY CLASS
        
Length                              306 feet overall     
Beam                                36.5 feet          
Draught                             11 feet fully loaded     
Displacement                        1,800 tons fully loaded        
Propellers                          2 off Manganese Bronze 8.5 feet each    
Rudders                             2 off    
Bunkers and Radius                  350 Tons (Oil Fuel) 5,500 miles at 15 knots    
Maximum Speed                       24 Knots ( most ships could attain 26/27 knots)       
            
Main Guns                           3 x 3 inch /50 Mk22 Dual purpose open mount, and                
                                    Fixed fire shot(Anti-Aircraft, Armour Piercing or 
                                    Starshell) and had a range of 14,600 yards at 
                                    45degrees and an Anti-Aircraft ceiling of 28,000 
                                    feet.                                                              
                 
Anti-Aircraft Guns                  8 x 20mm single mount Oerlikon cannon positioned    
                                    Two 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 one or two Oerlikons                   
                                    Fitted on top of the superstructure amidships and 
                                    Some ships had twin 40mm Bofas guns.                             


Anti Submarine Weapons    
                                             
Hedgehog                            British designed ahead throwing mortar which fired      
                                    24 bombs ahesd of the ship, this was situated                  
                                    A and B guns. 
                
Depth Charges                       Approximately 200 were carried.  Two sets of                       
                                    Double rails each side of the ship at the stern,each      
                                    Set held 24 charges, Two K gun depth charge                     
                                    Throwers each holding 5 charges, were situated              
                                    Each side of the ship just forward of the stern rails                
                                    And just forward of these double sets of ready                  
                                    Racks were fitted along each side of the ship                      
                                    Extending to midships, each set holding 60 depth         
                                    Charges (these ready rails were added after the                 
                                    Ships arrived back in the U.K.

                                              
Electronics 
          
Radar                               Type SL Surface search fixed to the mast above                  
                                    The yardarm           
                                    Type SA Air search was fitted to certain ships
                    
Asdic (Sonar)                       Type 128D or Type 144 both in retractable domes                                    

Direction Finding                   MF Direction finding antenna fitted in front of the                 
                                    Bridge                      
                                    HF/DF  Type FH 4 antenna fitted on top of the mast 


LIST OF BUCKLEY CLASS SHIPS

H.M.Ships  AFFLECK K462. AYLMER K463. BALFOUR K464. BENTINCT K314
BENTLEY K465. BICKERTON K466 BLIGH K467. BRAITHWAITE K468
BULLEN K469. BYARD K315. 508. CALDER K349. CONN K509.
COSBY K559. COTTON K510. CRANSTOUN K511. CUBITT K512.
CURZON K513. DAKINS K550. DEANE K551. DUFF K352.
DUCKWORTH K351. EKINS K552. ESSINGTON K353. FITZROY K553
HALSTEAD K556. HARGOOD K582. HOLMES K581. HOTHAM K583.
NARBOROUGH K578. REDMILL K554. RETALICK K555. RIOU K557.
ROWLEY K560. RUPERT K561. RUTHERFORD K558.
SEYMOUR K563. SPRAGGE K572. STAYNER K573.
STOCKHAM K562. THORNBOROUGH K574. TORRINGTON K577.
TROLLOPE K575. TYLER K576. WHITAKER K580.
WALDEGRAVE K579.

A TOTAL OF 46 SHIPS




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