| Name: | PETARD launched as PERSISTENT |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Keel: | 26/12/1939 |
| Launched: | 27/03/1941 |
| Completed: | 15/06/1942 |
| Builder: | Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd |
| Yard: | High Walker |
| Yard Number: | 23 |
| Dimensions: | 1640disp - 2250disp, 328.8 x 35.0 x 9.0(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 2 x Steam turbines, SR Geared, 40000shp |
| Engines by: | Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Co, Wallsend |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 36.8knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 5 x 1 x 4.0ins AA, 1 x 4 x 2pdr AA, 4 x 1 x 20mm AA guns; 1 x 4 x 21.0ins torpedoes; |
| 4 x depth charge throwers; (1944: 4 x 1 x 4.0ins AA guns) | |
| History: | |
| 15/06/1942 | British Royal Navy |
| 06/1967 | Broken up |
| Comments: | A member of the P Class of War Emergency Destroyers |
| Launched as PERSISTENT | |
| Allocated pennant number G56 | |
| 12/1955: Converted to a Type 16 fast anti-submarine frigate by Harland & Wolff | |
| 1 x 2 x 4.0ins, 7 x 20mm guns; 2 x Squid A/S mortars; 1 x 4 x 21.0ins torpedoes | |
| Allocated pennant number F26 | |
| 06/1967: Broken up by P & W McLellan Ltd at Bo'ness |
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