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| HMS Basilisk (H11)
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| File:HMS Basilisk.jpg
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| Career
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| Launched: |
6 August 1930
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| Fate: |
Sunk, off Dunkirk, France during Operation Dynamo on 1 June 1940
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| General Characteristics
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| Complement: |
138
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| Displacement: |
1,360 tonnes
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| Length: |
98.5 m (323 ft)
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| Beam: |
9.83 m (32 ft 3 inch)
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| Draught: |
3.73 m (12 ft 3 inch)
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| Propulsion: |
2 shafts; geared steam turbines, 3 oil fired boilers, 34,000 hp (25.4 MW), 380 tons oil fuel
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| Armament: |
four 4.7 inch (120 mm) guns; two 2-pounder anti-aircraft; eight 21 inch (530 mm) torpedo tubes
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| Speed: |
35.25 knots (65.28 km/h) maximum
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HMS Basilisk (H11) was a B-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service during World War II. It was sunk off the coast of Dunkirk during Operation Dynamo.
