&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:HMS_Maidstone.jpg) HMS Maidstone in the harbour of Algiers. Alongside are HMS Safari and HMS Sahib
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Maidstone |
| Namesake | Maidstone, Kent |
| Builder | John Brown & Company - Clydebank |
| Laid down | 17 August 1936 |
| Launched | 21 October 1937 |
| Commissioned | 5 May 1938 |
| Reclassified | Internment Holding area, 1970s |
| Fate | Scrapped May 1978 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Submarine depot ship |
| Displacement | 8,900 tons |
| Length | 497 ft (151 m) |
| Beam | 73 ft (22 m) |
| Speed | 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) |
| Complement | 1,167 men |
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HMS Maidstone was a submarine depot ship of the Royal Navy. She operated in the Mediterranean Sea, Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean during the Second World War. She was later used as a barracks ship and then a prison ship in Northern Ireland.