HMS Scorpion lifts her nose out of the water while operating in heavy Northern waters during Exercise Mariner, September 1953 (IWM)
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Scorpion |
Ordered | 3 February 1943 |
Builder | J. S. White, Cowes |
Laid down | 16 December 1944 |
Launched | 15 August 1946 |
Completed | 17 September 1947 |
Decommissioned | April 1963 |
Identification | Pennant number D64 |
Fate | Sold out of service on 4 June 1971 to P. & W. MacLellan, arriving at Bo'ness on 17 June 1971 for scrapping |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Weapon-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,980 tons standard |
Length | 365 ft (111 m) |
Beam | 38 ft (12 m) |
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HMS Scorpion was a Weapon-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy in service from 1947 and scrapped in 1971. Originally named Centaur, the ship was renamed Tomahawk and finally Scorpion (in September 1943) before her launch.