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Name: CALPE
Type: Destroyer
Keel: 12/06/1940
Launched: 28/04/1941
Completed: 24/11/1941
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 1595
Dimensions: 1050disp - 1430disp, 264.2 x 31.5 x 8.3(draft)ft
Engines: 2 x Steam turbines, SR geared, Parsons type, 19000shp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 27.0knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 3 x 2 x 4.0ins QF, 1 x 4 x 2pdr QF guns; 2 x 1 x depth charge throwers;
1 x depth charge rail
History:
24/11/1941 British Royal Navy
1952 Government of Denmark; renamed ROLF KRAKE
1966 Broken up
Comments: Member of the Hunt Class (Type II) of destroyers
1952: On loan to the Danish Government
1961: Purchased by the Danish Government
1966: Broken up in Denmark


Above photo as CALPE is copyright of the Imperial War Museum

Above photo as CALPE is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo as ROLF KRAKE is courtesy of Photoship