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| Name: | HMS Beagle |
| Namesake: | Beagle |
| Builder: | John Brown & Company, Clydebank |
| Cost: | £220,342 |
| Laid down: | 11 October 1929 |
| Launched: | 26 September 1930 |
| Completed: | 9 April 1931 |
| Decommissioned: | 24 May 1945 |
| Identification: | Pennant number: H30 |
| Motto: | To a finish |
| Honours and awards: |
NORWAY 1940 ATLANTIC 1940-45 NORTH AFRICA 1942 ARCTIC 1942-44 ENGLISH CHANNEL 1943 NORMANDY 1944 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrapping, December 1945 |
| Badge: | On a Field Green, a Beagle proper |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class and type: | B class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,360 long tons (1,380 t) (standard) 1,790 long tons (1,820 t) (deep load) |
| Length: | 323 ft (98.5 m) o/a |
| Beam: | 32 ft 3 in (9.8 m) |
| Draught: | 12 ft 3 in (3.7 m) |
| Installed power: | 34,000 shp (25,000 kW) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × shafts 2 × Parsons geared steam turbines 3 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers |
| Speed: | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
| Range: | 4,800 nmi (8,900 km; 5,500 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement: | 138 |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
Type 119 ASDIC |
| Armament: | 4 × 1 - 4.7-inch Mk IX guns 2 × 1 - QF 2-pounder Mk II AA guns 2 × 4 - 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes 20 × depth charges, 1 rail and 2 throwers |
HMS Beagle was a B-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw extensive service throughout World War II; in Norway, the Atlantic, North Africa, on Russian Convoys, and in the Normandy landings.[1]
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The ship was ordered in early 1929 from John Brown & Company at Clydebank, Glasgow, under the 1928 Programme, along with her sister ship Basilisk. She was laid down on 11 October 1929, and launched on 26 September 1930, as the eighth RN ship to carry this name. Beagle was completed on 9 April 1931 at a cost of £220,342, excluding items supplied by the Admiralty such as guns, ammunition and communications equipment.[1]
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