| Name: | HOLDERNESS |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Keel: | 29/06/1939 |
| Launched: | 08/02/1940 |
| Completed: | 10/08/1940 |
| Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
| Yard: | Wallsend |
| Yard Number: | 1573 |
| Dimensions: | 1000disp - 1340disp, 264.3 x 29.0 x 8.0(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 2 x Steam turbines, Parsons type, SR Geared, 19000shp |
| Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 27.5knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 2 x 2 x 4.0ins AA, 1 x 4 x 2pdr AA guns; depth charges |
| History: | |
| 10/08/1940 | British Royal Navy |
| 20/11/1956 | Broken up |
| Comments: | Member of the Hunt Class (Type I) of destroyers |
| 20/11/1956: Broken up at Preston by TW Ward |
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