HMS Laforey
F.99
1941
(Seavee 569a)
- Class: L & M Classes - 16 destroyers of 1938-39
- Displacement: 1,935 tons
- Dimensions: 345.5 (pp) 362.5 (oa) x 36.75 x 10 ft.
- Machinery: 2-shaft geared turbines, S.H.P. 48,000 = 36 knots
- Armament: 6-4.7in DP Mk XI (3x2), 1-4in AA, 4-2pdr AA (1x4), 4-20mm (4x1); 4-21in (1x4) TT
- Complement: 226
- Builder: Yarrow (Scotstoun)
- Laid Down: 1 Mar 1939
- Launched: 15 Feb 1941
- Completed: 26 Aug 1941
- Notes: Leader of 19th Destroyer Flotilla. Shown as completed with 4in AA, later replaced by second quad TT in 1943. Force "H" & Mediterranean fleet 1941-44. In company with Eclipse sank Italian submarine Ascianghi 23 Jul 1943 off Catania.
Torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-223 northeast of Palermo 30 Mar 1944.
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