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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