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TypeDestroyer (DD)
HullR75
BuilderSwan Hunter
Launched1943-02-04
Commissioned1943-11-05
FateAfloat. Survived the war.

Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.

V-class destroyer. With the East Indies Fleet. In May 1945 she was with the destroyers that sank the heavy cruiser Haguro in the Malacca Strait. Not credited to one ship.

The pictures on this page are the originals.