| Name: | SAUMAREZ |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Keel: | 24/09/1941 |
| Launched: | 20/11/1942 |
| Completed: | 01/07/1943 |
| Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Hebburn |
| Yard Number: | 650 |
| Dimensions: | 1780disp - 2505disp, 339.5 x 35.7 x 14.2(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 2 x Steam turbines, SR geared, Parsons type, 40000shp |
| Engines by: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 36.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 4 x 1 x 4.7ins QF, 1 x 2 x 40mm, 4 x 2 x 20mm guns; |
| 2 x 4 x 21.0ins torpedoes, 4 x depth charge throwers | |
| History: | |
| 01/07/1943 | British Royal Navy |
| 10/1950 | Broken up |
| Comments: | Member of the S Class of destroyers |
| 22/10/1946: Mined & heavily damaged in the Corfu channel | |
| 21/11/1946: After portion arrived at Malta under tow | |
| 08/09/1950: Handed over to British Iron & Steel Corp (BISCO) | |
| Towed to Gibraltar and then to the UK | |
| 12/10/1950: Arrived at Charlestown for breaking up | |
| 24/10/1950: Breaking up commenced by Metal Industries (Salvage) Ltd |
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