HMS Afridi (F07)
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| Career |  |
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 9 June 1936 |
| Launched: | 8 June 1937 |
| Commissioned: | 3 May 1938 |
| Fate: | Sunk |
| Struck: | |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 2,020 T |
| Length: | 377 ft |
| Beam: | 36 ft 6 in |
| Draught: | 13 ft |
| Propulsion: | 2 x 22,000 shp Parsons geared turbine engines |
| Speed: | 36 knots |
| Range: | |
| Complement: | 190 |
| Armament: | 8 x 4.7 guns in four turrets, 4 x 2 pdr pom poms, 4 x 21 inch torpedo tubes, 2 x depth charge throwers |
| Aircraft: | none |
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The second HMS Afridi (pennant number L07, later F07) was a Tribal-class destroyer of the Royal Navy laid down by the High Walker Yard of Vickers Armstrong at Newcastle-on-Tyne on 9 June 1936, launched on 8 June 1937 by Lady Foster and commissioned on 3 May 1938. Afridi served with 4th Destroyer Flotilla of the Mediterranean Fleet, and participated in sea campaigns off Norway. HMS Afridi, commanded by Captain Philip Vian, RN, was attacked by enemy German Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers as she evacuated troops from Namsos, and sank in the Norwegian Sea north-west of Namsos in Norway on 3 May 1940 with the loss of 100 men, including rescued troops and survivors from the sunken French destroyer Bison.
| Tribal class destroyer (1936) |
| Royal Navy |
| Afridi | Ashanti | Bedouin | Cossack | Eskimo | Gurkha | Maori | Mashona | Matabele | Mohawk | Nubian | Punjabi | Sikh | Somali | Tartar | Zulu |
| Royal Canadian Navy |
| Athabaskan (i) | Athabaskan (ii) | Cayuga | Haida | Huron | Iroquois | Micmac | Nootka |
| Royal Australian Navy |
| Arunta | Bataan | Warramunga |
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