HMS Hogue (D74)
1944 Battle-class destroyer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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HMS Hogue was a Battle-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that was commissioned during the Second World War. She was named after the Battle of La Hogue, fought between the British and French in 1692; the ship's badge a chess rook on a field blue, within a chaplet of laurel gold was derived from the arms of Admiral Sir George Rooke who distinguished himself at the battle.[1]
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HMS Hogue (D74) | |
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Name | HMS Hogue |
Builder | Cammell Laird, Birkenhead |
Laid down | 6 January 1943 |
Launched | 21 April 1944 |
Commissioned | 24 July 1945 |
Identification | Pennant number D74 |
Fate | Sold for scrap |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Battle-class destroyer |
Displacement | 2,315 tons standard / 3,290 tons full load |
Length | 379 ft (116 m) |
Beam | 40 ft 3 in (12.27 m) |
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Speed | 34 knots (63 km/h) |
Range | 4,400 nmi (8,100 km) at 20 kn (37 km/h) |
Complement | 247 peace time, 308 war |
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Hogue was built at the Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead during the Second World and launched on 21 April 1944.