HMS Saintes (D84)
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HMS Saintes was a 1942 Battle-class fleet destroyer of the Royal Navy (RN). She and 15 sister ships being ordered under the 1942 defence estimates. The ship was named after the Battle of the Saintes, a Royal Navy victory over a French fleet intending to invade Jamaica in 1782. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name. Saintes was built by Hawthorn Leslie and Company on the Tyne. The vessel was launched on 19 July 1944 and commissioned on 27 September 1946.
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Saintes |
Ordered | 1942 |
Builder | Hawthorn Leslie and Company |
Laid down | 8 June 1943 |
Launched | 19 July 1944 |
Commissioned | 27 September 1946 |
Decommissioned | May 1962 |
Fate | Broken up at Cairn Ryan 1972 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Battle-class destroyer |
Displacement | 2,325 tons |
Length | 379 ft (116 m) |
Beam | 40.25 ft (12.27 m) |
Draught | 13 ft (4.0 m) |
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Speed | 32 knots (59 km/h)+ |
Complement | 247 |
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