HMS Broke (D83)
HMS Broke
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| Name: | HMS Broke |
| Namesake: | Philip Broke |
| Ordered: | April 1918 |
| Builder: | John I. Thornycroft & Company |
| Laid down: | October 1918 |
| Launched: | 16 September 1920 |
| Commissioned: | 15 April 1925 |
| Renamed: | From Rooke, April 1921 |
| Fate: | Sunk, 8 November 1942 |
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| Class and type: | Thornycroft type destroyer leader |
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| Beam: | 31 ft 6 in (9.60 m) |
| Draught: | 12 ft 3 in (3.73 m) |
| Installed power: | 40,000 shp (30,000 kW) |
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| Capacity: | 500 short tons (450 t) fuel oil |
| Complement: | 164 |
| Armament: | 5 × BL 4.7 in (120 mm) Mark I dual purpose gun, 1 × QF 3 inch 20 cwt anti-aircraft gun, 6 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (2 × 3) |
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| Part of: | 4th Destroyer Flotilla |
| Commanders: | Henry Fancourt |
| Operations: | Operation Terminal |
HMS Broke was a Thornycroft type flotilla leader of the Royal Navy. She was the second of four ships of this class that were ordered from J I Thornycroft in April 1918, and was originally named Rooke after Rear Admiral Sir George Rooke of the Dutch Wars and the Battle of Vigo Bay.
The naturalist Peter Scott, among the ship's crew in 1940, conducted experiments in ship camouflage, having the two sides of Broke painted in different patterns.
She was laid down in October 1918 at Woolston, Hampshire by J I Thornycroft and launched on 16 September 1920. Her name was changed to Broke in April 1921, after Rear-Admiral Sir Philip Broke (/ˈbrʊk/).Broke was moved to the Royal Dockyard at Pembroke Dock for completion, but was not completed until 1925. She was commissioned on 15 April 1925.
On 2 September 1937, Broke, based at Plymouth, was sent to investigate an SOS signal from the South African merchant ship Sherard Osborn in the Bay of Biscay. The Captain of Sherard Osborn had sent the signal fearing an imminent mutiny owing to an overtime dispute and poor conditions aboard the ship, but invervention by Broke was not needed.
At the outbreak of war, Broke was part of the 29th Division, 15th Destroyer Flotilla. She was assigned to convoy protection duty, transferring to the Western Approaches Command at Plymouth in October. During this period, she escorted merchant ships on the north- and south-bound Gibraltar and South Atlantic routes.
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