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Destroyer HMS Opportune

Flagg for United Kingdom
Class
O-klasse destroyer
Shipping company
Nationality
United Kingdom
Home port
Shipyard
Build year
1942
Other
Participant in WW2
Navy ship

Dimensions

Length:
345.0'
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HMS OPPROTUNE 

Name: HMS Opportune
Ordered: 3 September 1939
Laid down: 28 March 1940
Launched: 21 February 1942
Commissioned: 14 August 1942
Motto:
  • Felix oportunitate pugnae
  • "Happy at the chance of a fight" or "Fortunate in the timeliness of her fight"
Honours and
awards:
  • Arctic (1942-45)
  • North Africa (1942)
  • Atlantic (1943)
  • North Cape (1943)
  • Normandy (1944)
Fate: Scrapped on 25 November 1955
Badge: On a Field Blue, an hour glass Gold.
General characteristics
Class and type: O-class destroyer
Displacement: 1,540 tons
Length: 345 ft (105 m)
Speed: 36.75 knots (68.06 km/h)
Complement: 175
Armament:
  • 4 × 4-inch guns
  • 4 × 2-pounder anti-aircraft guns
  • 6 × 20 mm anti-aircraft guns
  • 8 × 21 inch torpedo tubes

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Opportune_%28G80%29

 

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