| Name: | LEGION |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Keel: | 01/11/1938 |
| Launched: | 26/12/1939 |
| Completed: | 19/12/1940 |
| Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Hebburn |
| Yard Number: | 619 |
| Dimensions: | 1920disp - 2660disp, 345.5 x 37.0 x 10.0(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 2 x Steam turbines, Parsons type, SR geared, 48000shp |
| Engines by: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 36.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 4 x 2 x 4.0ins AA, 1 x 4 x 2pdr AA, 2 x 1 x 20mm AA, 2 x 4 x 0.5ins AA guns; |
| 2 x 4 x 21.0ins torpedoes | |
| History: | |
| 19/12/1940 | British Royal Navy |
| 26/03/1942 | Sank |
| Comments: | Member of the L Class of destroyers |
| 13/11/1941: Took survivors from the sinking ARK ROYAL | |
| 23/03/1942: Sustained damage due to near misses and limped to Valetta | |
| Bombed and sunk whilst alongside Boiler Wharf. Hull rolled over. | |
| 1943: Wreck cut in two as a salvage attempt, but failed. | |
| 1946: Broken up in situ |
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Above photo of LEGION alongside the sinking ARK ROYAL is copyright of the Imperial War Museum
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