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Name: AFRIDI
Type: Destroyer
Keel: 09/06/1936
Launched: 08/06/1937
Completed: 03/05/1938
Builder: Vickers-Armstrong Ltd
Yard: High Walker
Yard Number: 6
Dimensions: 1960disp - 2520disp, 355.5 x 36.5 x 9.0(draft)ft
Engines: 2 x Steam turbines, Parsons type, SR geared, 44000shp
Engines by: Vickers-Armstrong Ltd, Barrow
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 36.0knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 4 x 2 x 4.7ins QF, 1 x 4 x 2pdr AA, 2 x 4 x 0.5ins AA guns;
1 x 4 x 21.0ins torpedoes; 1 x depth charge rack & 2 x throwers
History:
03/05/1938 British Royal Navy
03/05/1940 Sank
Comments: A member of the TRIBAL Class
03/05/1940: Bombed & sunk by German aircraft, 200 miles NW of Trondheim
92 crew including soldiers evacuated from Norway died


Above photo is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo is courtesy of Photoship