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Name: OAKLEY
Type: Destroyer
Keel: 22/11/1939
Launched: 30/10/1940
Completed: 17/06/1941
Builder: Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd
Yard: High Walker
Yard Number: 21
Dimensions: 1050disp - 1430disp, 264.3 x 31.5 x 8.3(draft)ft
Engines: 2 x Steam turbines, SR Geared, 19000shp
Engines by: Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Co, Wallsend
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 27.0knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 3 x 2 x 4.0ins QF, 1 x 4 x 2pdr AA, 2 x 1 x 20mm AA guns; depth charges
History:
17/06/1941 British Royal Navy
1941 Government of Poland; renamed KUJAWIAK
16/06/1942 Sank
Comments: Member of the Hunt Class (Type II) of destroyers
16/06/1942: Mined & sunk off Valetta


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