HMS Consort (R76)
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HMS Consort on the river Clyde in 1945
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Name: | HMS Consort |
Ordered: | 14 August 1942 |
Builder: | Alexander Stephen & Sons, Glasgow |
Laid down: | 26 May 1943 |
Launched: | 19 October 1944 |
Commissioned: | 19 March 1946 |
Identification: | Pennant number: R76 |
Fate: | Arrived for scrapping at Swansea on 15 March 1961 |
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Class & type: | C-class destroyer |
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Length: | 362.75 ft (110.57 m) o/a |
Beam: | 35.75 ft (10.90 m) |
Draught: | 11.75 ft (3.58 m) |
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Speed: | 36 kn (67 km/h; 41 mph) / 32 kn (59 km/h; 37 mph) full |
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Complement: | 186 (222 as leader |
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HMS Consort was a C-class destroyer of the Royal Navy, launched on 19 October 1944 and commissioned on 19 March 1946.[1]
Whilst berthed at Nanking, Consort suffered 49 casualties in 1949 after being attacked by the Chinese.[2] She suffered further loss during the Yangtze Incident in an attempt to tow the sloop Amethyst from a mudbank, taking 56 direct hits, and causing casualties of 23 wounded and a further ten dead.[3]
Following decommissioning she was sold to the Prince of Wales Drydock Co, Swansea, Wales, arriving there on the 15 March 1961 for scrapping.
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