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| Career |
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| Ordered: |
3rd September 1939 |
| Laid down: |
15th January 1940 Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan, Scotland |
| Launched: |
14th January 1941 |
| Commissioned: |
5th July 1941 |
| Decommissioned: |
1st January 1946 |
| Fate: |
Sold to Turkey, becoming GAYRET, 1946.[1] Finally scrapped - 1965. |
| Struck: |
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| General characteristics |
| Displacement: |
1,540 T |
| Length: |
345 ft |
| Beam: |
35 ft |
| Draught: |
13 ft 5 in |
| Propulsion: |
2 x 20,000 shp Pearson geared turbine engines |
| Speed: |
37 knots |
| Range: |
3,850 miles |
| Complement: |
175 |
| Armament: |
4 x 4.7 guns in four turrets, 4 x 2pdr AA, 6 x 20mm AA, 8 x 21 inch torpedo tubes. |
| Aircraft: |
none |
| Motto: |
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For other ships of the same name, see
HMS Oribi.
HMS Oribi was an O-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. Following the style of her sister ships she was named with a word beginning with O. Originally she was to have been christened HMS Observer, but for unknown reasons she was christened HMS Oribi.
She carried pennant number
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