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HMS Saladin (1919)
Royal Navy S class destroyer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
HMS Saladin was an Admiralty S-class destroyer that served with the Royal Navy in the Second World War. The S class was a development of the R class created during the First World War as a cheaper alternative to the V and W class. Launched in 1919 soon after the Armistice, the ship was commissioned into the Reserve Fleet and had an uneventful career until 1939. Upgraded shortly after the start of the Second World War with greater anti-aircraft and anti-submarine capabilities, Saladin served as an escort, usually for convoys of merchant ships, for the majority of the war. The ship was damaged by German aircraft while assisting in the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940 and involved in escorting the landing parties for the Normandy landings in 1944. After surviving the war, Saladin was retired and handed over to be broken up in 1947.
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Name | Saladin |
Namesake | Saladin |
Ordered | 7 April 1917 |
Builder | Stephen, Linthouse |
Laid down | 10 September 1917 |
Launched | 17 February 1918 |
Completed | 11 April 1919 |
Out of service | 29 June 1947 |
Fate | Sold to be broken up |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | S-class destroyer |
Displacement | |
Length | 265 ft (80.8 m) p.p. |
Beam | 26 ft 9 in (8.15 m) |
Draught | 9 ft 10 in (3.00 m) mean |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 36 knots (41.4 mph; 66.7 km/h) |
Range | 2,750 nmi (5,090 km) at 15 kn (28 km/h) |
Complement | 90 |
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