HMS Caprice

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Caprice
Ordered	16 February 1942
Laid down	28 September 1942
Launched	16 September 1943
Completed	5 April 1944
Commissioned	5 April 1944
Decommissioned	1973
Renamed	Built as Swallow Renamed Caprice before launch
Identification	Pennant number: R01 initially, but changed to D01 in 1945
Honours and awards	None
Fate	Arrived at Queenborough breaker's yard for scrapping, November 1979
Badge	On a Field Green, a kid salient Proper.
General characteristics
Class and type	C-class destroyer
Displacement	1,710 tons (standard) 2,520 tons (full)
Length	363 ft (111 m) o/a
Beam	35.75 ft (10.90 m)
Draught	10 ft (3.0 m) light, 14.5 ft (4.4 m) full
Propulsion	2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers, Parsons geared steam turbines, 40,000 shp (30,000 kW), 2 shafts
Speed	37 knots (69 km/h)
Range	615 tons oil, 1,400 nautical miles (2,600 km) at 32 knots (59 km/h)
Complement	192 (1959)
Armament	Initial 3 × QF 4.5 in L/45 guns Mark IV on mounts CP Mk.V 2 × Bofors 40 mm L/60 guns on twin mount "Hazemeyer" Mk.IV, or; 4 × QF 2 pdr L/39 guns Mk.VIII on quad mount Mk.VII 4 × anti-aircraft mountings; Bofors 40 mm, single mount Mk.III QF 2-pdr Mk VIII, single mount Mk.XVI Oerlikon 20 mm, single mount P Mk.III Oerlikon 20 mm, twin mount Mk.V 2 × pentuple tubes for 21 inch (533 mm) torpedoes Mk.IX 4 throwers and 2 racks for 96 depth charges From 1966 3 × QF 4.5 in L/45 guns Mark IV on mounts CP Mk.V 2 × Bofors 40 mm L/60 guns 6 × Squid anti submarine launchers (after modernization) 1 × Quadruple Sea Cat GWS-20 Launcher (from 1966)
Aircraft carried	None

HMS Caprice was a C-class destroyer of the Royal Navy, ordered on 16 February 1942 from Yarrow, Scotstoun. She was originally to be named HMS Swallow but this was changed to Caprice before launch to fit her revised class name. She is the only British warship to have had this name. She was adopted by the Civil Community of Bexley and Welling, as part of the Warship Week programme.