HMS Albuera

History
United Kingdom
Name: HMS Albuera
Builder: Vickers Armstrong, Newcastle on Tyne
Laid down: 16 September 1943
Launched: 28 August 1945
Fate: Broken up incomplete 1950
General characteristics
Class and type: Battle-class destroyer
Displacement:
  • 2,325 tons standard
  • 3,430 tons full load
Length: 379 ft (116 m)
Beam: 40 ft (12 m)
Draught: 15.3 ft (4.7 m)
Propulsion: 2 steam turbines, 2 shafts, 2 boilers, 50,000 shp (37 MW)
Speed: 35.75 knots (66.21 km/h; 41.14 mph)
Range: 4,400 nmi (8,100 km; 5,100 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement: 268
Armament:

HMS Albuera ( pennant number I51) was a Royal Navy Battle-class destroyer which was ordered on 10 March 1943 from Vickers Armstrong on the Tyne. She was laid down on 16 September 1943 and launched on 28 August 1945. The order was cancelled on 15 October 1945 and she was sold incomplete for scrapping to Thos W Ward arriving at Inverkeithing on 21 November 1950[1]

References

  1. ↑ Lenton, H.T. (1970). Navies of the Second World War British Fleet and Escort Destroyers Volume 2. London: Macdonald. p. 60. ISBN 0356031225.
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