HMS Cheviot
R.90
1945
(SeaVee 557a)
- Class: Ch - 8 destroyers of 1942
- Displacement: 1,885 tons standard / 2,545 tons full load
- Dimensions: 348' (wl) 362'9" (oa) x 35'8" x 11'3"
- Machinery: 2-shaft geared turbines, S.H.P. 40,000 = 36 knots
- Armament: 4-4.5in QF Mk IV (4x1), 4-40mm (1x2+2x1), 2-20mm (2x1); 4-21in (1x4) TT
- Complement: 186
- Builder: Stephen, Linthouse
- Laid Down: 27 Apr 1943
- Launched: 2 May 1944
- Completed: 11 Dec 1945
- Notes: Similar to the Z/Ca classes, the 12th Emergency Flotilla differed in having Mk VI HA/LA DCT and remote power control for the 4.5in guns. The extra weight had to be compensated by deleting one set of 4 TT.
Completed too late to see action in the war. Postwar she spent much of her time in the Mediterranean. Partially modernized in the 1950s; scrapped in 1963. Other members of the class were scrapped in the 1960s, with the exception of two that were sold to Pakistan.
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