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Name | HMS Kimberley |
Builder | John I. Thornycroft & Company, Woolston, Hampshire |
Laid down | 17 January 1938 |
Launched | 1 June 1939 |
Commissioned | 21 December 1939 |
Motto | Post tenbras lux : 'After darkness light' |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 30 March 1949 |
Notes | Badge: On a Field barry wavy of six White and Blue a diamond with rays White, charges with a lion rampant Black |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Class and type | K-class destroyer |
Displacement | |
Length | 356 ft 6 in (108.66 m) o/a |
Beam | 35 ft 9 in (10.90 m) |
Draught | 12 ft 6 in (3.81 m) (deep) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion | 2 × shafts; 2 × geared steam turbines |
Speed | 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph) |
Range | 5,500 nmi (10,200 km; 6,300 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 183 (218 for flotilla leaders) |
Sensors and processing systems | ASDIC |
Armament |
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HMS Kimberley was a K-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She served in the Second World War and survived it, being one of only two of the K-class to do so. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name Kimberley, after the town of Kimberley, Northern Cape, site of the Siege of Kimberley in the Second Boer War. She was adopted by the civil community of Eastwood, Kimberley and Selston, Nottinghamshire in 1942 after a successful Warship Week campaign for National Savings.