Career (UK)
Name:	HMS Dunkirk
Ordered:	1943
Builder:	Alexander Stephen and Sons
Laid down:	19 July 1944
Launched:	27 August 1945
Commissioned:	27 November 1946
Decommissioned:	1963
Fate:	Broken up 1965
General characteristics
Class and type:	Battle class destroyer
Displacement:	2,480 tons standard
Length:	379 feet (116 m)
Beam:	40 feet 6 inches (12. Year 1943 ( MCMXLIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Alexander Stephen and Sons Limited, often referred to simply as Alex Stephens or just Stephens, was a Scottish shipbuilding company based in Events 711 - Muslim forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by their king Roderic. Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 479 BC - Greco-Persian Wars: Persian forces led by Mardonius are routed by Pausanias, the Spartan The list of ship launches in 1945 includes a chronological list of all Ships launched in 1945. Events 1095 - Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont Year 1946 ( MCMXLVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. Design "1942" or "Early Battle" class The first years of World War II had shown that British destroyers were ill equipped to deal with concentrated 3 m)
Draught:	12 feet 8 inches (3. 9 m) mean 17 feet 6 inches (5. 3 m) maximum
Propulsion:	Oil fired, two three-drum boilers, Parsons geared turbines, twin screws, 50,000 hp (37 MW)
Speed:	35. 75 knots (66. 21 km/h)
Complement:	268
Armament:	5 × 4.5-inch (114 mm) gun 8 × Bofors 40 mm guns 10 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes 2 × Squid mortar
Service record
Part of	4th Destroyer Flotilla 7th Destroyer Squadron

HMS Dunkirk (D09) was a later or 1943 Battle-class fleet destroyer of the British Royal Navy (RN). Design "1942" or "Early Battle" class The first years of World War II had shown that British destroyers were ill equipped to deal with concentrated In naval terminology a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance Warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, Convoy The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British armed services (and is therefore known as the Senior Service) Though there were other ships of the Navy that had been named Dunkirk, as far back as the 1650s, it held added meaning after the dramatic, and at times, tragic and heroic evacuation from Dunkirk between late May and early June 1940, in which over 300,000 British, as well as French troops, were rescued by a ragtag fleet of ships. The Dunkirk evacuation, codenamed Operation Dynamo by the British was the Evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

Dunkirk was built by Alexander Stephen and Sons of Govan. Alexander Stephen and Sons Limited, often referred to simply as Alex Stephens or just Stephens, was a Scottish shipbuilding company based in Govan ( Scottish Gaelic: Baile a' Ghobhainn) is a district and former Burgh in the southwestern part of the City of Glasgow, She was launched on 27 August 1945 and commissioned on 27 November 1946. Events 479 BC - Greco-Persian Wars: Persian forces led by Mardonius are routed by Pausanias, the Spartan Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar Events 1095 - Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont Year 1946 ( MCMXLVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

In the year of her commissioning, Dunkirk joined the 4th Destroyer Flotilla of the Home Fleet. The Home Fleet is the traditional name of the fleet of the Royal Navy that protects the United Kingdom 's territorial waters In 1950, Dunkirk was placed in Reserve, just many of her sister-ships in the 1950s. Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The 1950s Decade refers to the years of 1950 to 1959 inclusive She subsequently performed a variety of duties and in 1958, while in the Mediterranean, Dunkirk, in broad daylight, collided with her sister-ship HMS Jutland during naval manoeuvres off Malta, causing minor damage. Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Malta, officially the Republic of Malta (Repubblika ta' Malta is a European Microstate, comprising an Archipelago of three islands

In 1961, Dunkirk, along with the cruiser HMS Lion and the frigate HMS Leopard, undertook a tour of the South American continent. Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. HMS Leopard (F14, was a ''Leopard''-class Type 41 anti aircraft Frigate of the British Royal Navy, named after the South America is a Continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a Instead of returning home to the UK from the deployment's culmination Dunkirk deployed to the Mediterranean where HMS Broadsword, a Weapon-class destroyer, and of the 7th Destroyer Squadron, which was based in the Mediterranean, had experienced some engine problems and therefore had to be replaced. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Design The hull length was not much increased over the War Emergency Programme design but beam and draught were increased to allow for a displacement increase as the Dunkirk finally returned home in 1963. Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Just two years later, Dunkirk was scrapped at Faslane. Along with HMNB Devonport and HMNB Portsmouth, Her Majesty's Naval Base (HMNB Clyde is one of the Royal Navy 's three operational bases

References

• Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). James Joseph Colledge (born 1908 was a noted naval Historian, author of Ships of the Royal Navy, the standard work on the fighting ships of the British Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. For a list of ships of the Royal Navy, see List of Royal Navy ships. ed. , London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475. The OCLC Online Computer Library Center is according to its website a "nonprofit membership computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purpose