Name: | ALBUERA |
Type: | Destroyer |
Keel: | 16/09/1943 |
Launched: | 28/08/1945 |
Completed: | n/a |
Builder: | Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd |
Yard: | High Walker |
Yard Number: | 75 |
Dimensions: | 2380disp - 3400disp, 355.0 x 40.5 x 10.8(draft)ft |
Engines: | 2 x Steam turbines, SR Geared, 50000shp |
Engines by: | Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 35.75knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Armament: | 2 x 2 x 4.5ins DP, 1 x 1 x 4.5ins DP, 3 x 2 x 40mm AA, 2 x 1 x 40mm AA guns; |
2 x 5 x 21.0ins torpedoes; 1 x 3 x Squid AS mortars | |
History: | |
British Royal Navy | |
Broken up | |
Comments: | Member of the Battle Class of destroyers |
Laid up after launching with machinery also installed | |
Hull used for structural tests by Admiralty Naval Construction & Research Dept at Rosyth | |
Subsequently broken up |