| Name: | MODBURY |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Keel: | 05/08/1941 |
| Launched: | 13/04/1942 |
| Completed: | 25/11/1942 |
| Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
| Yard: | Wallsend |
| Yard Number: | 1649 |
| Dimensions: | 1050disp - 1430disp, 264.2 x 31.5 x 8.3(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 2 x Steam turbines, SR geared, Parsons type, 19000shp |
| Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 27.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 2 x 2 x 4.0ins QF, 1 x 4 x 2pdr guns; 1 x 2 x 21.0ins torpedoes; |
| 4 x depth charge throwers, 2 depth charge rails | |
| History: | |
| 25/11/1942 | British Royal Navy |
| 25/11/1942 | Transferred to Royal Hellenic Navy; renamed MIAOULIS |
| 23/09/1960 | British Royal Navy |
| 1960 | Broken up |
| Comments: | A member of the Hunt Type III Class of destroyers |
| Not commissioned into the British Royal Navy but transferred at completion | |
| 1960: Broken up in Greece |
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