Express 1934

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Name:	EXPRESS
Type:	Destroyer
Keel:	24/03/1933
Launched:	29/05/1934
Completed:	02/11/1934
Builder:	Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard:	Wallsend
Yard Number:	1481
Dimensions:	1405disp - 1940disp, 318.3 x 33.3 x 12.5(draft)ft
Engines:	2 x Steam turbines, SR Geared, Parsons type, 36000shp
Engines by:	Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion:	2 x Screws, 35.5knots
Construction:	Steel
Armament:	4 x 1 x 4.7ins QF, 4 x 1 x 2pdr, 2 x 4 x 0.5ins AA guns;
	2 x 4 x 21.0ins torpedoes, 2 x depth charge throwers, 1 x depth charge rail
	(1939: 2 x 1 x 4.7ins, 2 x 4 x 0.5ins QF guns; 60 x mines)
History:
02/11/1934	British Royal Navy
06/1943	Royal Canadian Navy; renamed GATINEAU
1955	Broken up

Comments:	A member of the E Class of destroyers. Pennant number H61
	07/09/1939: Converted for use as a minelayer
	31/08/1940: Hit mine north of Texel. Lost entire bow fwd of bridge
	09/1941: Repaired & returned to service
	1955: Hulk used to form part of a breakwater at Royston, British Columbia

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