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HMS Afridi (F07)
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Image:HMS Afridi (F07).jpg 300px|HMS Afridi
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!style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|Career
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Image:RN-White-Ensign.svg 60px|Royal Navy Ensign
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|Ordered:
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|Laid down:
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9 June 1936
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|Launched:
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8 June 1937
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|Commissioned:
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3 May 1938
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|Fate:
|Sunk
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|Struck:
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|Displacement:
| 2,020 T
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|Length:
|377 ft
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|Beam:
|36 ft 6 in
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|Draught:
|13 ft
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|Propulsion:
|2 x 22,000 shp Pearson geared turbine engines
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|Speed:
|36 knots
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|Range:
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|Complement:
|190
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|Armament:
|8 x 4.7 guns in four turrets, 4 x 2pdr, 4 x 21 inch torpedo tubes, 2 x depth charge throwers
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|Aircraft:
|none
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The second '''''HMS Afridi''''' (L-07/F-07) was a
Tribal class destroyer (1936) Tribal-class destroyer of the
Royal Navy laid down by the
High Walker Yard of
Vickers Armstrong at Newcastle-on-Tyne on
9 June 1936, launched on
8 June 1937 by
Lady Foster and commissioned on
3 May 1938. ''Afridi'' served with 4th Destroyer Flotilla of the
Mediterranean Fleet, and participated in sea campaigns off
Norway. ''HMS Afridi'', commanded by Captain
Philip Vian, RN, was attacked by enemy
Germany German Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers as she evacuated troops from
Namsos, and sank in the
Norwegian Sea north-west of Namsos in
Norway on
3 May 1940 with the loss of 100 men, including rescued troops and survivors from the sunken French destroyer ''Bison''.
See
HMS Afridi HMS ''Afridi'' for other ships of this name.
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Category:Tribal class destroyers Afridi
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