HMS Oribi (G66)

Career
Ordered:	3rd September 1939
Laid down:	15th January 1940 Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan, Scotland
Launched:	14th January 1941
Commissioned:	5th July 1941
Decommissioned:	1st January 1946
Fate:	Sold to Turkey, becoming GAYRET, 1946. Finally scrapped - 1965.
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement:	1,540 T
Length:	345 ft
Beam:	35 ft
Draught:	13 ft 5 in
Propulsion:	2 x 20,000 shp Pearson geared turbine engines
Speed:	37 knots
Range:	3,850 miles
Complement:	175
Armament:	4 x 4.7 guns in four turrets, 4 x 2pdr AA, 6 x 20mm AA, 8 x 21 inch torpedo tubes.
Aircraft:	none
Motto:

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Oribi.

HMS Oribi was an O-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. Following the style of her sister ships she was named with a word beginning with O. Originally she was to have been christened HMS Observer, but for unknown reasons she was christened HMS Oribi.

She carried pennant number

• G66 July 1941 - 1946