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HMS Whimbrel (U29)
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31.1917661°N 29.8611456°E / 31.1917661; 29.8611456
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Name | Whimbrel |
Builder | Yarrow Shipbuilders |
Laid down | 31 October 1941 |
Launched | 25 August 1942 |
Commissioned | 13 January 1943 |
Identification | Pennant number U29 |
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Fate | Sold to Egypt, November 1949 |
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Name | El Malek Farouq |
Acquired | November 1949 |
Renamed | Tariq 1954 |
Status | Laid up as training ship |
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Class and type | Black Swan-class sloop |
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Length | 299 ft 6 in (91.29 m) |
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Draught | 11 ft (3.4 m) |
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Range | 7,500 nmi (13,900 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h) |
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HMS Whimbrel is the last surviving Royal Navy warship to have been present at the Surrender of Japan in World War II. She was a sloop of the Black Swan-class, laid down on 31 October 1941 to the pennant number of U29 at the famed yards of Yarrow Shipbuilders, Scotstoun, Glasgow.