HMS Basilisk (H11)
Appearance
HMS Basilisk | |
History | |
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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 |
HMS Basilisk (H11) was a B class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service during World War II. She was sunk off the coast of Dunkirk during Operation Dynamo.