HMS Undine
R.42
1943
(Optatus OPT-S-44bT)
- Class: U - 8 destroyers of 1941
- Displacement: 1,777 tons standard / 2,508 tons full load
- Dimensions: 348' (wl) 362'9" (oa) x 35'8" x 10'
- 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), 8-20mm (4x2); 8-21in (2x4) TT
- Complement: 179
- Builder: Thornycroft
- Laid Down: 18 Mar 1942
- Launched: 1 Jun 1943
- Completed: 23 Dec 1943
- Notes: 7th Emergency Flotilla; served in the 25th Destroyer Flotilla at Normandy in June 1944 and with the British Pacific Fleet as part of TF57 in the Okinawa campaign in 1945. Converted at Yarrow 1954 to a Type 15 fast anti-submarine frigate, with new pennant number F.141. Broken up 1965
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