History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Basilisk |
Namesake | Basilisk |
Ordered | 4 March 1929 |
Builder | John Brown & Company, Clydebank |
Yard number | 531[1] |
Laid down | 19 August 1929 |
Launched | 6 August 1930 |
Completed | 4 March 1931 |
Identification | Pennant number: H11[2] |
Fate | Sunk by air attack, 1 June 1940 |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Class and type | B-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,360 long tons (1,380 t) (standard) |
Length | 323 ft (98.5 m) (o/a) |
Beam | 32 ft 3 in (9.8 m) |
Draught | 12 ft 3 in (3.7 m) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion | 2 × shafts; 2 × geared steam turbines |
Speed | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
Range | 4,800 nmi (8,900 km; 5,500 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 142 (wartime) |
Sensors and processing systems | Type 119 ASDIC |
Armament |
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HMS Basilisk was a B-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy around 1930. Initially assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet, she was transferred to the Home Fleet in 1936. The ship escorted convoys and conducted anti-submarine patrols early in World War II before participating in the Norwegian Campaign. Basilisk was sunk by German aircraft during the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940.