&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:HMS_Scorpion_(G72)_in_June_1944.jpg) HMS Scorpion in June 1944
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Scorpion |
| Ordered | 9 January 1941 |
| Builder | Cammell Laird, Birkenhead |
| Laid down | 19 June 1941 |
| Launched | 26 August 1942 |
| Commissioned | 11 May 1943 |
| Decommissioned | 16 August 1945 |
| Identification | Pennant number: G72 |
| Motto | Finem espice - Look to the end |
| Honours and awards |
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| Fate | Sold to the Dutch in October 1945 |
| Badge | On a Field barry wavy of six white and blue, a scorpion gold. |
 Netherlands | |
| Name | HNLMS Kortenaar |
| Acquired | October 1945 |
| Reclassified | Frigate, 1957 |
| Identification | D804 and later F812 |
| Fate | Scrapped 1963 |
| 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 | |
| Speed | 36.75 knots (68.06 km/h; 42.29 mph) |
| Complement | 225 |
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HMS Scorpion was an S-class destroyer of the Royal Navy, the eleventh of her name, commissioned on 11 May 1943. Initially she was to be named Sentinel, but this was changed following the loss of the Dragonfly-class river gunboat Scorpion in the Bangka Strait in February 1942.[1] She served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War, mostly in the Arctic Ocean, and fought in the Battle of North Cape. She was sold to the Netherlands in 1945 and scrapped in 1963.