| Name: | LIGHTNING |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Keel: | 15/11/1938 |
| Launched: | 22/04/1940 |
| Completed: | 09/05/1941 |
| Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Hebburn |
| Yard Number: | 620 |
| Dimensions: | 1920disp - 2660disp, 345.6 x 36.8 x 10.0(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 2 x Steam turbines, SR geared, 48000shp |
| Engines by: | Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Co, Wallsend |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 36.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 3 x 2 x 4.7ins DP, 1 x 4ins AA, 1 x 4 x 2pdr AA, 2 x 1 20mm guns; |
| 1 x 4 x 21.0ins torpedoes | |
| History: | |
| 28/05/1941 | British Royal Navy |
| 12/03/1943 | Sank |
| Comments: | Member of the L Class of destroyers |
| 1941: Completion delayed by late delivery of the three twin gun mountings | |
| 12/03/1943: Sunk by torpedoes from German MTBs S158 & S55 north of Tunisia |
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