HMS Albrighton
Hunt-class destroyer operated by the United Kingdom and West Germany / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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HMS Albrighton was a Type III Hunt-class destroyer built for the British Royal Navy. She entered service in February 1942, first carrying out an attack on German ships in the English Channel then taking part in the Dieppe Raid, rescuing survivors from the sinking destroyer HMS Broke. Albrighton was next assigned to search for and destroy the German auxiliary cruiser Komet, then escorted a convoy to Gibraltar in prevision of the Allied landings in North Africa. Between December 1942 and April 1943, she participated in the sinking of three more Axis ships with the First Destroyer Flotilla. During the Normandy Landings in June 1944, Albrighton served as a headquarters ship, then sank two German trawlers in the weeks after the invasion. After being converted to a destroyer in early 1945, she was damaged in a collision with a Landing Ship, then was assigned to the British Eastern Fleet. However, the war ended before she was deployed and Albrighton went into reserve.
Albrighton in 1943 | |
History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Albrighton |
Namesake | Albrighton Hunt |
Ordered | 4 July 1940 |
Builder | John Brown & Company, Clydebank |
Laid down | 30 December 1940 |
Launched | 11 October 1941 |
Commissioned | 22 February 1942 |
Identification | Pennant number: L12 |
Fate | Sold to West Germany, 11 November 1957 |
West Germany | |
Name | Raule |
Acquired | 11 November 1957 |
Commissioned | 14 May 1959 |
Decommissioned | 1968 |
Identification | Pennant number: F217 |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 1969 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Type III Hunt-class destroyer |
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Length | |
Beam | 31 ft 6 in (9.60 m) |
Draught | 7 ft 9 in (2.36 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph) |
Range | 3,700 nmi (6,900 km; 4,300 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
Complement | 168 |
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In 1957, she was refitted in Liverpool, then sold to the West German Navy and commissioned under then name Raule. She served as a training ship until 1968, when she was decommissioned and sold for scrap metal in Hamburg the next year.