HMS Saumarez (G12)
1943 S-class destroyer of the Royal Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Saumarez.
HMS Saumarez was an S-class destroyer of the Royal Navy, completed on 1 July 1943. As a flotilla leader, her standard displacement was 20 tons heavier than other ships of her class. She continued the tradition of flotilla leaders being named after prominent British seamen, in her case Vice-Admiral James Saumarez, 1st Baron de Saumarez of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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Name | HMS Saumarez |
Namesake | James Saumarez, 1st Baron de Saumarez |
Ordered | January 1941 |
Builder | Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn, Newcastle upon Tyne |
Launched | 20 November 1942 |
Commissioned | 1 July 1943 |
Identification | Pennant number: G12 |
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Badge | On a Field White, within a crescent Red a leopard's face black |
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Class and type | S-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,730 tons (standard) |
Length | 363 ft (111 m) |
Beam | 35 ft (11 m) |
Draught | 14 ft (4.3 m) |
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Speed | 36.75 knots (68.06 km/h; 42.29 mph) |
Complement | 225 |
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