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Name: BLEAN
Type: Destroyer
Keel: 22/02/1941
Launched: 15/01/1942
Completed: 23/08/1942
Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 643
Dimensions: 1087disp, 264.0 x 31.5 x 11.6(draft)ft
Engines: 2 x Steam turbines, Parsons type, 19000shp
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 27.0knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 2 x 2 x 4.0ins QF, 1 x 4 x 2pdr guns, 2 x 21.0ins torpedoes, 110 depth charges
History:
23/08/1942 British Royal Navy
11/12/1942 Sank
Comments: A member of the Hunt Type III Class of destroyers
11/12/1942: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U443, 11 miles north-west of Oran


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