WORLD OF WARSHIPS HMAS DUCHESS DDE 154 FLEET DESTROYER AND TRAINING SHIP

Wallpaper Description:

Duchess replaces Voyager that suffered a fatal collision with the carrier Melbourne during trials.

Dimensions & Displacement
Displacement
2830 tons (standard)
3820 tons (full load)
Length 118.9 metres (390 feet)
Beam 13.1 metres (43 feet)
Draught 4.1 metres (14 feet mean; 17 feet maximum)
Performance
Speed 33 knots
Complement
Crew
278 (as destroyer)
210 plus up to 40 junior officers under training (as a training ship)
Propulsion
Machinery 2 Foster Wheeler boilers providing steam power to Parsons double reduction geared turbines driving two shafts
Horsepower 54,000
Armament
Guns
6 115mm (4.5-inch) dual-purpose guns in three twin mountings (2 forward, 1 aft)
4 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns
Torpedoes Initially 10 533mm (21-inch) torpedo tubes in two pentad mountings. The after mounting was removed in 1958-59, being replaced by a deckhouse for extra accommodation.
Other Armament 1 triple-barrel Squid anti-submarine mortars, x turret removed for classrooms.