HMS Oribi (G66)
| Career | 
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|---|---|
| Ordered: | 3rd Spetember 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.[1] 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: | |
HMS Oribi was an 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
References
- ^ Ex-British O class destroyers at battleships-cruisers.co.uk
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