HMS Basilisk (H11): Difference between revisions

History
UK
Name	HMS Basilisk
Launched	6 August 1930
Fate	Sunk off Dunkirk, France, during Operation Dynamo on 1 June 1940
General characteristics
Class and type	B class destroyer
Displacement	1,360 tonnes
Length	98.5 metres (323 ft)
Beam	9.83 metres (32.3 ft)
Draught	3.73 metres (12.2 ft)
Propulsion	2 shafts; geared steam turbines, 3 oil fired boilers, 34,000 hp (25.4 MW), 380 tons oil fuel
Speed	35.25 knots (65 km/h)
Complement	138
Armament	list error: <br /> list (help); 4 × 4.7 inch (120 mm) guns; 2 × QF 2-pounder anti-aircraft; 8 × 21 inch (530 mm) torpedo tubes

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HMS Basilisk (H11) was a B class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service during World War II.^[1] She was sunk off the coast of Dunkirk during Operation Dynamo by German Stuka dive bombers while participating in the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from France. ^[2]

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