HMS Opportune (G80)

History
United Kingdom
Name	Opportune
Ordered	3 September 1939
Laid down	28 March 1940
Launched	21 February 1942
Commissioned	14 August 1942
Motto	Felix oportunitate pugnae "Happy at the chance of a fight" or "Fortunate in the timeliness of her fight"
Honours and awards	Arctic (1942-45) North Africa (1942) Atlantic (1943) North Cape (1943) Normandy (1944)
Fate	Scrapped on 25 November 1955
Badge	On a Field Blue, an hour glass Gold.
General characteristics
Class and type	O-class destroyer
Displacement	1,610 long tons (1,640 t) (standard)
Length	345 ft (105.2 m) (o/a)
Beam	35 ft (10.7 m)
Draught	13 ft 6 in (4.1 m)
Installed power	2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers 40,000 shp (29,828 kW)
Propulsion	2 × shafts; 2 × geared steam turbines
Speed	37 knots (69 km/h; 43 mph)
Range	3,850 nmi (7,130 km; 4,430 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement	176+
Armament	4 × single QF 4 in (102 mm) AA gun 1 × quad 2 pdr (40 mm (1.6 in)) AA gun 4 × single 20 mm (0.8 in) AA guns 2 × quadruple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes 2 × depth charges throwers 60 × mines

HMS Opportune was an O-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was ordered from John I. Thornycroft & Company, Woolston on 3 September 1939 for the 1st Emergency Flotilla. She was commissioned on 14 August 1942. She was the second Royal Navy ship borne Opportune.

She served throughout the Second World War, mainly as an escort ship for convoys, and remained with the Royal Navy until the mid-1950s.