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Name: POITIERS also seen as POICTIERS
Type: Destroyer
Keel: 09/02/1945
Launched: 04/01/1946
Completed: n/a
Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 669
Dimensions: 2480disp, 379.0 x 40.5 x 12.8(draft)ft
Engines: 2 x Geared steam turbines, Parsons type, 50000shp
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 35.75knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 2 x 2 x 4.5ins guns, 2 x 5 x 21.0ins torpedoes, 2 x Squid anti-submarine mortars
History:
1946 British Royal Navy
04/1946 Broken up
Comments: Member of the Battle Class
23/10/1945: Contract cancelled
04/01/1946: Launched to clear the slipway
29/04/1946: Left the Tyne to be broken up at Sunderland