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&sq=&lang=&file=File:HMS_Myngs_FL16599.jpg) HMS Myngs, circa 1944
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Myngs |
| Ordered | 12 February 1942 |
| Builder | Vickers-Armstrongs, High Walker |
| Laid down | 27 May 1942 |
| Launched | 31 May 1943 |
| Completed | 23 June 1944 |
| Commissioned | 23 June 1944 |
| Identification | Pennant number: R06 initially, but changed to D06 after 1945 |
| Honours and awards | Zeebrugge 1918 - Norway 1944 - Arctic 1945 |
| Fate | Sold to Egypt, 1955 |
| Badge | On a Field Red, four naval cutlasses in Saltire Proper, pommels and hilts Gold. |
 Egypt | |
| Name | El Qaher |
| Acquired | 1955 |
| Commissioned | 28 August 1956 |
| Fate | Sunk, 1970 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Z-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 1,710 tons |
| Length | 362.7 ft (110.6 m) |
| Beam | 35.7 ft (10.9 m) |
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| Speed | 37 knots (69 km/h; 43 mph) |
| Complement | 186 |
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HMS Myngs was a Z-class destroyer of the Royal Navy built as a flotilla leader by Vickers-Armstrongs, High Walker. She served in the Second World War, taking part in operations in the North Sea and off the Norwegian coast, before taking part in some of the Arctic convoys. She spent a further ten years in Royal Navy service after the end of the war, before being sold to the Egyptian Navy, which operated her as El Qaher. She was sunk in an Israeli air attack on 16 May 1970.