HMS Scourge
G.01
1943
(Optatus OPT-S-29a)
- Class: S - 8 destroyers of 1941
- Displacement: 1,737 tons
- Dimensions: 348 (wl) 363 (oa) x 36 x 10 ft.
- Machinery: 2-shaft geared turbines, S.H.P. 40,000 = 36 knots
- Armament: 4-4.7in QF Mk IX (4x1), 2-40mm Mk IV (1x2), 4-20mm (4x1); 8-21in (2x4) TT
- Complement: 179
- Builder: Cammell Laird
- Laid Down: 26 Jun 1941
- Launched: 8 Dec 1942
- Completed: 14 Jul 1943
- Notes: 5th Emergency Flotilla. Assigned to 23rd Destroyer Flotilla, Scourge was part of escort for convoy JW55B in Dec 1943 when four of her sister ships participated in the sinking of Scharnhorst. Served during Normandy invasion of June 1944 and continued to end of war in Norwegian and Arctic waters.
To Netherlands Oct 1945 as Evertsen.
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