Dates: 1944 - 1945
HMS Chevron was a C H Class Destroyer completed in 1945 and was built at Scotts at Greenock.
She was 362.75 ft. in length and a beam of 35ft. 75”
A draft of 10ft. and a displacement of 2,545 tons.
She had two Parsons geared steam turbine engines and two shafts. She developed 40,000 shp Horsepower
A top speed of 36.75knots, a usual maximum of 31.25 knots.
Endurance of 1,300 nautical miles at top speed.
Main armament was four 4.5” gun turrets.
2 40mm. Bofors mountings.
2 Sets of 4X21” torpedo tubes.
2 Stern racks for depth charges and 4 depth charge throwers.
A compliment of 222 oficers and men.
Chevron on more than one occasion shot sleeve targets out of the sky with her main armament.
Contributed history and points of special interest.
Sole named ship. Sold to Ward 18/10/1969. Broken up at Inverkeithing.
Memories of the sailor:
I spent a lot of time at Port Said on Liverpool and Chevron. On Chevron we used to run backwards and forwards between Cyprus and Port Said at the time of the terrorism in both places. I was awarded a medal for the Suez campaign with a bar denoting the Cyprus service. Men who fought terrorism in Egypt didn’t get one because they obviously were not there at the time of the invasion. This is unfair because they fought for some years, many of them national service men
