HMAS Napier (G97)
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HMS Napier (G97), named for Admiral Sir Charles Napier RN (1786–1860), was an N-class destroyer of the Royal Navy.
She was laid down by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Limited, at Govan in Scotland on 26 July 1939. she was launched on 22 May 1940 and commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy on 11 December 1940 as HMAS Napier with an Australian crew although she remained the property of the British Government. Her Australian crew left on 25 October 1945 and she reverted to the Royal Navy.
Napier was sold for scrap to Thomas W. Ward and arrived at Briton Ferry on 17 January 1956 where she was broken up.
[edit] See also
- HMS Napier for other ships of the same name.
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