HMS Laforey (G99)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Laforey.
HMS Laforey was an L-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was commissioned in and served during the Second World War, and was torpedoed and sunk by a U-boat in 1944. She had been adopted by the civil community of Northampton in November 1941.
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Name | HMS Laforey |
Ordered | 31 March 1938 |
Builder | Yarrow Shipbuilders, Scotstoun, Glasgow |
Laid down | 1 March 1939 |
Launched | 15 February 1941 |
Commissioned | 26 August 1941 |
Identification | Pennant number: G99 |
Fate | Torpedoed and sunk by U-223 on 30 March 1944 |
Badge | On a Field Blue, a lion's gamb Gold holding a torch in flamed Proper. |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | L-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,920 tons |
Length | 362.5 ft (110.5 m) |
Beam | 36.7 ft (11.2 m) |
Draught | 10 ft (3.0 m) |
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Speed | 36 kt (66.7 km/h) |
Range | 5,500 nmi (10,200 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h) |
Complement | 221 |
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