HMS Dunkirk (D09)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Dunkirk.
HMS Dunkirk (D09) was a later or 1943 Battle-class fleet destroyer of the British Royal Navy (RN). Though there were other ships of the Navy that had been named Dunkirk, as far back as the 1650s, it held added meaning after the evacuation from Dunkirk between late May and early June 1940, in which over 300,000 British, as well as French troops, were rescued by a ragtag fleet of ships.
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Name | HMS Dunkirk |
Ordered | 1943 |
Builder | Alexander Stephen and Sons |
Laid down | 19 July 1944 |
Launched | 27 August 1945 |
Commissioned | 27 November 1946 |
Decommissioned | 1963 |
Fate | Broken up 1965 |
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Class and type | Battle-class destroyer |
Displacement | 2,480 tons standard |
Length | 379 ft (116 m) |
Beam | 40 ft 6 in (12.34 m) |
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Propulsion | Oil fired, two three-drum boilers, Parsons geared turbines, twin propellers, 50,000 hp (37,000 kW) |
Speed | 35.75 knots (66.21 km/h) |
Complement | 268 |
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Dunkirk was built by Alexander Stephen and Sons of Govan. She was launched on 27 August 1945 and commissioned on 27 November 1946.