HMS Basilisk (H11)
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| Name: | HMS Basilisk |
| Launched: | 6 August 1930 |
| Fate: | Sunk off Dunkirk, France, during Operation Dynamo on 1 June 1940 |
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| Class and type: | B class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,360 tonnes |
| Length: | 98.5 metres (323 ft) |
| Beam: | 9.83 metres (32.3 ft) |
| Draught: | 3.73 metres (12.2 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 2 shafts; geared steam turbines, 3 oil fired boilers, 34,000 hp (25.4 MW), 380 tons oil fuel |
| Speed: | 35.25 knots (65 km/h) |
| Complement: | 138 |
| Armament: | 4 × 4.7 inch (120 mm) guns 2 × QF 2-pounder anti-aircraft 8 × 21 inch (530 mm) torpedo tubes |
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Basilisk.
HMS Basilisk (H11) was a B class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service during World War II. She was sunk off the coast of Dunkirk during Operation Dynamo.
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