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Friday 7 December 2018

British HMS destroyer St. Kitts (D18) at Amsterdam, Netherlands 1 July 1952


National Archive, The Hague, Netherlands. Wim Consenheim/Anefo. Original source
 National Archive, The Hague, Netherlands. Wim Consenheim/Anefo. Original source

Battle-class destroyer. Laid down by Swan Hunter, Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England on 8 September 1943, launched on 4 October 1944, decommissioned in 1957 and sold to be broken up at Sunderland on 19 February 1962.

Displacement 2.315 tons and as dimensions 116 x 12,27 x 3,89 (mean)-5,3 (maximum)  delivering 50.000 ship to the 2 shafts allowing a speed of 34 knots. Crew numbered 250 (peace)-337 (war) men. Armament consisted of 2 dual 11,4cm/4.5” guns, 1x1-10,1cm/4” gun, 14-4cm Bofors guns and 8-53,3cm/21” torpedo tubes.