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HMS Eclipse As is usual with the Royal Navy, the name HMS Eclipse has been given to many ships. The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British armed services (and is therefore the Senior Service). ...
There was also an Eclipse class of ship in WW1, with the names; Eclipse, Diana, Dido, Doris, Isis, Juno, Minerva, Talbot, Venus. Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ...
Eclipse Class | Length | 350 ft | | Beam | 53ft 6in | | Draught | 20ft 6in | | Displacement | 5,600 tons | | Propulsion | 2 shaft TE engines, 8,000 ihp | | Speed | 18.5kts | | Armour | 3in gun shields, 3-1.5in decks | | Armament | 5 x 6in QF (5 x 1), 6 x 4.7in (6 x 1), 8 x 12 pounder QF (8 x 1), 6 x 3 pounder QF (6 x 1), 3 x 18in TT | | Crew | 450 | HMS Eclipse was the first and was laid down in December 1893 and completed in March 1897. This was the Seventh "Eclipse" in the RN. Eclipse Class
HMS Eclipse H 08
HMS Eclipse was an E class Destroyer in the Second World War. HMS Eclipse H 08 | Type | Destroyer | | Class | E | | Pennant | H 08 | | Built by | William Denny & Brothers (Dumbarton, Scotland) | | Laid down | 22 Mar, 1933 | | Launched | 12 Apr, 1934 | | Commissioned | 29 Nov, 1934 | | Lost | 24 Oct, 1943 - mined and sunk east of Kalymnos Island, Greece in position 37º01'N, 27º11'E. | History
23 June or July 1943
The Italian submarine Ascianghi was sunk off Augusta by the British destroyers HMS Eclipse and HMS Laforey.
22 Aug, 1943
HMS Eclipse heavily damaged the German torpedo boat TA 12 (970 tons, former French Baliste).
23 Sep, 1943
HMS Eclipse damaged the the German torpedo boat TA 10 (Oberleutnant Jobst Hahndorff) (former French torpedo boat La Pomone and later Italian FR 42) and sank the merchant Gaetano Donizetti, carrying Italian POWs, south west of Rhodes. HMS Eclipse |
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