| Name: | VIGILANT |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Keel: | 31/01/1942 |
| Launched: | 22/12/1942 |
| Completed: | 10/09/1943 |
| Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
| Yard: | Wallsend |
| Yard Number: | 1679 |
| Dimensions: | 1802disp - 2530disp, 339.5 x 35.7 x 14.2(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 2 x Steam turbines, SR geared, Parsons type, 40000shp |
| Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 36.75knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 4 x 1 x 4.7ins QF, 4 x 1 x 2pdr guns; 2 x 4 x 21.0ins torpedoes; |
| 4 x depth charge throwers, 2 x depth charge rails | |
| (1954: 1 x 2 x 4.0ins, 1 x 2 x 40mm guns; 2 x Limbo AS mortars) | |
| History: | |
| 10/09/1943 | British Royal Navy |
| 04/06/1965 | Broken up |
| Comments: | Member of the V Class of destroyers |
| Fitted out for Arctic service with extra stiffening, heating etc | |
| 1955: Converted to a Type 15 frigate at Chatham dockyard | |
| 04/06/1965: Broken up at Faslane |
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