HMS Saumarez (G12)

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Saumarez
Namesake	James Saumarez, 1st Baron de Saumarez
Ordered	January 1941
Builder	Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn, Newcastle upon Tyne
Launched	20 November 1942
Commissioned	1 July 1943
Identification	Pennant number: G12
Honours and awards	Arctic 1943-44 North Cape 1943 Normandy 1944 Malaya 1945 Burma 1945
Fate	Heavily damaged by mine on 22 October 1946 Written off as a constructive total loss and sold on 8 September 1950 for scrapping Broken up in Charlestown, Fife in October 1950.
Badge	On a Field White, within a crescent Red a leopard's face black
General characteristics
Class and type	S-class destroyer
Displacement	1,730 tons (standard)
Length	363 ft (111 m)
Beam	35 ft (11 m)
Draught	14 ft (4.3 m)
Propulsion	Two sets of Parsons geared turbines 40,000 hp (30,000 kW)
Speed	36.75 knots (68.06 km/h; 42.29 mph)
Complement	225
Armament	4 × 4.7-inch (120-mm) QF Mk IX guns (4×1) 2 × 40mm Bofors (1x2) 8 × 20 mm guns anti-aircraft guns 8 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (2×4)

HMS Saumarez was an S-class destroyer of the Royal Navy, completed on 1 July 1943. As a flotilla leader, her standard displacement was 20 tons heavier than other ships of her class. She continued the tradition of flotilla leaders being named after prominent British seamen, in her case Vice-Admiral James Saumarez, 1st Baron de Saumarez of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.