HMS Opportune (G80)
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HMS Opportune was an O-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was ordered from John I. Thornycroft & Company, Woolston on 3 September 1939 for the 1st Emergency Flotilla. She was commissioned on 14 August 1942. She was the second Royal Navy ship borne Opportune.
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Name | Opportune |
Ordered | 3 September 1939 |
Laid down | 28 March 1940 |
Launched | 21 February 1942 |
Commissioned | 14 August 1942 |
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Fate | Scrapped on 25 November 1955 |
Badge | On a Field Blue, an hour glass Gold. |
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Class and type | O-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,610 long tons (1,640 t) (standard) |
Length | 345 ft (105.2 m) (o/a) |
Beam | 35 ft (10.7 m) |
Draught | 13 ft 6 in (4.1 m) |
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Propulsion | 2 × shafts; 2 × geared steam turbines |
Speed | 37 knots (69 km/h; 43 mph) |
Range | 3,850 nmi (7,130 km; 4,430 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
Complement | 176+ |
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She served throughout the Second World War, mainly as an escort ship for convoys, and remained with the Royal Navy until the mid-1950s.