HMS Eggesford (L15)

HMS Eggesford, c1943 (IWM)
History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Eggesford
Ordered:	28 July 1940
Builder:	J Samuel White Ltd, Isle of Wight
Laid down:	23 June 1941
Launched:	12 September 1942
Commissioned:	21 January 1943
Identification:	pennant number: L15
Fate:	Sold to West Germany, 11 November 1957
Badge:	On a Field barry wavy of four White and Blue a goat's head erased Black gorged with a chain Gold, suspended therefrom by a link chain, a bugle horn also Gold
History
West Germany
Name:	Brommy
Acquired:	11 November 1957
Decommissioned:	1968
Identification:	pennant number: F218
General characteristics
Class and type:	Type III Hunt-class destroyer
Displacement:	1,050 long tons (1,070 t) standard, 1,490 long tons (1,510 t) full load
Length:	264 ft 3 in (80.54 m) pp, 280 ft (85.34 m) oa
Beam:	31 ft 6 in (9.60 m)
Draught:	7 ft 9 in (2.36 m)
Propulsion:	2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers 2 shaft Parsons geared turbines, 19,000 shp (14,000 kW)
Speed:	27 kn (50 km/h; 31 mph)
Range:	3,700 nmi (6,900 km; 4,300 mi) at 14 kn (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Complement:	168
Armament:	4 × QF 4 in Mark XVI guns on twin mounts Mk. XIX 5 × QF 2 pdr Mk. VIII (1 × quad mount and 1 × single bow chaser mount) 3 × 20 mm Oerlikons 2 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes 70 depth charges, 4 throwers, 2 racks

HMS Eggesford was a Type III Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She entered service in January 1943, carrying out convoy escort, patrol and anti-shipping attacks for most of the rest of the Second World War. In 1957, she was sold to the West German Navy, serving as a training ship for the submarine weapons school until 1968.

HMS Eggesford was one of the Type III Hunt class. These differed from the previous Type II ships in replacing a twin 4-inch gun mount by two torpedo tubes to improve their ability to operate as destroyers. During the Second World War Eggesford was awarded battle honours for Sicily 1943, Salerno 1943, Adriatic 1944 and South France 1944. In July 1945 she sailed for the Far East, but arrived too late for operational service.

At the end of 1945 Eggesford returned to Britain and was allocated to the basic anti-submarine training flotilla. In 1946 she went into reserve and in 1952 was laid up at Penarth before transfer to the West German Navy.

In May 1956, Eggesford was one of seven frigates selected for transfer to the new West German Navy, being sold on 11 November 1957, and refitted in Liverpool before commissioning in the German Navy on 14 May 1959 as Brommy. In 1962 she was refitted by the Palmers Hebburn works of Vickers-Armstrong and again refitted in 1963.

Brommy decommissioned in 1968 and was sold for scrap in 1969.

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