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Name: JUTLAND
Type: Destroyer
Keel: 11/08/1944
Launched: 02/11/1945
Completed: n/a
Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 667
Dimensions: 2480disp, 379.0 x 40.5 x 12.8(draft)ft
Engines: 2 x Geared steam turbines, Parsons type, 50000shp
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 35.75knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 2 x 2 x 4.5ins guns, 2 x 5 x 21.0ins torpedoes, 2 x Squid anti-submarine mortars
History:
1945 British Royal Navy
1945 Renamed J.4922
1957 Broken up
Comments: Member of the Battle Class
23/10/1945: Contract cancelled & name re-allocated
08/03/1946: Allocated to Naval Construction Research Establishment, Rosyth
1947: The incomplete hull was used for various trials & also as a target
11/09/1957: Arrived at Rosyth for breaking up by Shipbreaking Industries Ltd
11/09/1957: Breaking up commenced