History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Cassandra |
Ordered | February 1942 |
Builder | Yarrow Shipbuilders, Scotstoun |
Laid down | 30 January 1943 |
Launched | 29 November 1943 |
Completed | 28 July 1944 |
Commissioned | 28 July 1944 |
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Identification | Pennant number: R62 initially, but changed to D10 in 1945 |
Motto | Furiosior undis: 'More mad than the waves' |
Honours and awards | Arctic 1944 |
Fate | Arrived at breaker's yard for scrapping on 28 April 1967 |
Badge | On a Field Blue, a woman's head affronte with two snakes wreathed round her neck and poised about her ears all 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 |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 37 knots (69 km/h) |
Range | 615 tons oil, 1,400 nautical miles (2,600 km) at 32 knots (59 km/h) |
Complement | 186 |
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HMS Cassandra was a C-class destroyer of the Royal Navy, ordered in February 1942 from Yarrow Shipbuilders.[1] She was originally to be named HMS Tourmaline but this was changed to Cassandra in November 1942 to fit her revised class name. She was laid down on 30 January 1943 and launched on 29 November 1943.[1]