HMS Broke (D83)

HMS Broke
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Broke
Namesake	Philip Broke
Ordered	April 1918
Builder	John I. Thornycroft & Company
Yard number	983
Laid down	October 1918[1]
Launched	16 September 1920[1]
Commissioned	15 April 1925[1]
Renamed	From Rooke, April 1921
Fate	Sunk, 8 November 1942[2]
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	Thornycroft type destroyer leader
Displacement	1,554 long tons (1,579 t) (standard) 2,009 long tons (2,041 t) (full load)
Length	329 ft (100 m) o/a 318 ft 3 in (97.00 m) pp
Beam	31 ft 6 in (9.60 m)
Draught	12 ft 3 in (3.73 m)
Installed power	40,000 shp (30,000 kW)
Propulsion	2 × Brown-Curtiss single reduction steam turbines 4 × Yarrow boilers 2 × shafts
Speed	36.5 kn (42.0 mph; 67.6 km/h)
Capacity	500 short tons (450 t) fuel oil
Complement	164
Armament	5 × BL 4.7 in (120 mm) Mark I dual purpose gun, 1 × QF 3 inch 20 cwt anti-aircraft gun,[2] 6 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (2 × 3)
Service record
Part of:	4th Destroyer Flotilla
Commanders:	Henry Fancourt
Operations:	Operation Terminal

HMS Broke was a Thornycroft type flotilla leader of the Royal Navy. She was the second of four ships of this class that were ordered from J I Thornycroft in April 1918,^[2] and was originally named Rooke after Rear Admiral Sir George Rooke of the Dutch Wars and the Battle of Vigo Bay.

The naturalist Peter Scott, among the ship's crew in 1940, conducted experiments in ship camouflage, having the two sides of Broke painted in different patterns.