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Matabele
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Matabele |
Namesake | Southern Ndebele people |
Ordered | 19 June 1936 |
Builder | Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering, Greenock |
Cost | £342,005 |
Laid down | 1 October 1936 |
Launched | 6 October 1937 |
Completed | 25 January 1939 |
Identification | Pennant numbers: L26, later F26 |
Motto | Hamba Gahle: " Go in Peace." |
Fate | Sunk by U-454, 17 January 1942 |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Class and type | Tribal-class destroyer |
Displacement | |
Length | 377 ft (114.9 m) (o/a) |
Beam | 36 ft 6 in (11.13 m) |
Draught | 11 ft 3 in (3.43 m) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion | 2 × shafts; 2 × geared steam turbines |
Speed | 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph) |
Range | 5,700 nmi (10,600 km; 6,600 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 190 |
Sensors and processing systems | ASDIC |
Armament |
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HMS Matabele was a Tribal-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that saw service in World War II, being sunk by a U-boat on 17 January 1942. She has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name Matabele, which in common with the other ships of the Tribal class, was named after an ethnic group of the British Empire. In this case, this was the Anglicisation of the Ndebele people of Zimbabwe.