HMS Ilex
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HMS Ilex was one of nine I-class destroyers built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s. She is the only ship of the Royal Navy ever to have been named after Ilex, the genus of flowering plants commonly known as holly.
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Ilex |
Namesake | Ilex |
Builder | John Brown and Company, Clydebank, Scotland |
Cost | £255,072[1] |
Laid down | 10 March 1936 |
Launched | 28 January 1937 |
Commissioned | 7 July 1937 |
Identification | Pennant number: D61 |
Fate | Sold 1946, scrapped 1948 |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Class and type | I-class destroyer |
Displacement | |
Length | 323 ft (98.5 m) |
Beam | 33 ft (10.1 m) |
Draught | 12 ft 6 in (3.8 m) |
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Propulsion | 2 shafts, 2 geared steam turbines |
Speed | 35.5 knots (65.7 km/h; 40.9 mph) |
Range | 5,500 nmi (10,200 km; 6,300 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 145 |
Sensors and processing systems | ASDIC |
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