HMS Paladin (G69)
P-class destroyer converted to Type 16 frigate of the Royal Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Paladin.
HMS Paladin was a P-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that served in the Second World War. She was built by John Brown and Co. Ltd., Clydebank. She saw action in the Mediterranean and Far East. After the war she was converted into a type 16 frigate and was eventually scrapped in 1962.
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Name | HMS Paladin |
Ordered | 2 October 1939 |
Builder | John Brown |
Laid down | 22 July 1940 |
Launched | 11 June 1941 |
Commissioned | December 1941 |
Decommissioned | June 1961 |
Identification | Pennant number: G69, later F169 |
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Fate | Scrapped in 1962 |
Badge | On a Field Blue, a sword erect White, pommel and hilt Gold enfiled with two spurs in Saltire also Gold. |
General characteristics as P–class | |
Class and type | P-class destroyer |
Displacement | |
Length | 345 ft (105 m) o/a |
Beam | 35 ft (11 m) |
Draught | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
Propulsion | 2 × Admiralty 3-drum water-tube boilers, Parsons geared steam turbines, 40,000 shp on 2 shafts |
Speed | 36.75 knots (68.06 km/h) |
Range | 3,850 nautical miles (7,130 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h) |
Complement | 176 |
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General characteristics as Type 16 class | |
Class and type | Type 16 frigate |
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Length | 362 ft 9 in (110.57 m) o/a |
Beam | 37 ft 9 in (11.51 m) |
Draught | 14 ft 6 in (4.42 m) |
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Speed | 32 knots (37 mph; 59 km/h) full load |
Complement | 175 |
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