HMS Dunkirk (D09)

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Dunkirk
Ordered	1943
Builder	Alexander Stephen and Sons
Laid down	19 July 1944
Launched	27 August 1945
Commissioned	27 November 1946
Decommissioned	1963
Fate	Broken up 1965
General characteristics
Class and type	Battle-class destroyer
Displacement	2,480 tons standard
Length	379 ft (116 m)
Beam	40 ft 6 in (12.34 m)
Draught	12 ft 8 in (3.86 m) mean 17 ft 6 in (5.33 m) maximum
Propulsion	Oil fired, two three-drum boilers, Parsons geared turbines, twin propellers, 50,000 hp (37,000 kW)
Speed	35.75 knots (66.21 km/h)
Complement	268
Armament	5 × 4.5 in (114 mm) gun 8 × Bofors 40 mm guns 10 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes 2 × Squid mortar
Service record
Part of:	4th Destroyer Flotilla 7th Destroyer Squadron

HMS Dunkirk (D09) was a later or 1943 Battle-class fleet destroyer of the British Royal Navy (RN). Though there were other ships of the Navy that had been named Dunkirk, as far back as the 1650s, it held added meaning after the evacuation from Dunkirk between late May and early June 1940, in which over 300,000 British, as well as French troops, were rescued by a ragtag fleet of ships.

Dunkirk was built by Alexander Stephen and Sons of Govan. She was launched on 27 August 1945 and commissioned on 27 November 1946.