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#REDIRECT [[HMS Oribi (G66)]]
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!style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|Career
!style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|[[Image:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg|60px|Royal Navy Ensign]]
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|Ordered:
|3rd Spetember 1939
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|Laid down:
|15th january 1940 [[Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company|Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company]], [[Govan]], [[Scotland]]
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|Launched:
|14th January 1941
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|Commissioned:
|5th July 1941
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|Decommissioned:
|1st January 1946
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|Fate:
|Sold to Turkey, becoming GAYRET, 1946. Finally scrapped - 1965.
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|Struck:
|
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!colspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|General Characteristics
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|Displacement:
| 1,540 T
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|Length:
|345 ft
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|Beam:
|- ft - in
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|Draught:
|- ft
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|Propulsion:
|2 x 20,000 shp Pearson geared turbine engines
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|Speed:
|37 knots
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|Range:
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|Complement:
|175
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|Armament:
|4 x 4.7 guns in four turrets, 4 x 2pdr AA, 6 x 20mm AA, 8 x 21 inch torpedo tubes.
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|Aircraft:
|none
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|Motto:
|
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{{otherships|HMS Oribi}}
'''HMS ''Oribi'' ''' was an [[O class destroyer (1941)|O-class]] destroyer of the [[Royal Navy]]. Following the style of her sister ships she was named with words 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

{{O class destroyer (1941)}}

[[Category:O class destroyers (1941)|Oribi (G66)]]
[[Category:Royal Navy destroyers|Oribi (G66)]]
[[Category:World War II destroyers of the United Kingdom|Oribi (G66)]]

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