HMS Kandahar (F28)
- 2 Admiralty three-drum boiler
- 2 Parsons turbines with reduction gears
- 40,000 PSW ( 29.4 MW)
- 6 × 12 - mm guns Mk XII ( 3 × 2)
- 4 × 2 -pounder Mk VIII ( 1 × 4)
- 8 × 12.7 - mm anti-aircraft guns (2 × 4)
- 10 × 53.3 cm torpedo tubes (2 x 5 )
HMS Kandahar ( F28 ) was a British destroyer of the K- class. He was born on January 18, 1938 set at William Denny and Brothers at Dumbarton at Kiel, launched on March 21, 1939 and put into service on 10 October 1939. After commissioning she was assigned to the 5th Destroyer Flotilla of the Home Fleet at Scapa Flow.
History
In May 1940, she was assigned to the Mediterranean and met on 21 May in Malta at the 14th Destroyer Flotilla one. It was intended for use in the Red Sea and moved to the East Indies Station.
On 20 June 1940, the Italian submarine Torricelli was forced to the emergence of the Kandahar along with the destroyers HMS Kingston and HMS Khartoum and the sloop HMS Shoreham at Perim and sunk after a gun battle.
On 19 December 1941, the Kandahar ran as part of Force K while trying to catch a certain Tripoli Italian convoy, in a newly laid Italian minefield. They suffered such heavy losses that it was abandoned the next day and sunk by a torpedo HMS Jaguar after she received 174 survivors.
Technical Description
The armament consisted of six 12 -inch guns in twin mountings Mk XII for use against sea and air targets (two towers before the bridge, the rear in excessive position, a gun mount on a platform at the rear ). As Flakbewaffnung the destroyer had a 2- pounder Mk VIII gun Vierling on a platform behind the chimney, as well as eight 0.5 - inch ( 12.7 -mm) - Fla - MG. Ten torpedo tubes in two sets of five tubes completed the armament.