HMS Khartoum (F45)
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Khartoum |
| Ordered: | March 1937 |
| Builder: | Swan Hunter, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom |
| Laid down: | 27 October 1937 |
| Launched: | 6 February 1939 |
| Commissioned: | November 1939 |
| In service: | 6 November 1939 |
| Out of service: | February–April 1940 |
| Identification: | pennant number: F45/G45 |
| Fate: | Partially sank in harbor of Red Sea island, Perim, after an exploding torpedo air vessel set off a fire which reached the aft magazine. 23 June 1940 |
| Notes: | Badge: On a Field barry wavy of Blue and White a camel, Gold. |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class and type: | K-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | |
| Length: | 356 ft 6 in (108.66 m) o/a |
| Beam: | 35 ft 9 in (10.90 m) |
| Draught: | 12 ft 6 in (3.81 m) (deep) |
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| Propulsion: | 2 × shafts; 2 × geared steam turbines |
| Speed: | 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph) |
| Range: | 5,500 nmi (10,200 km; 6,300 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement: | 183 (218 for flotilla leaders) |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
ASDIC |
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HMS Khartoum was a K-class destroyer of the Royal Navy, ostensibly named after the capital of Sudan, Khartoum.
Khartoum was launched on 6 February 1939. Her initial action occurred on 19 December 1939, during deployment in the Firth of Clyde, when she was subject to an unsuccessful torpedo attack by a submarine near Holy Isle. She then carried out an anti-submarine search for 24 hours without success. In February 1940, she was deployed for escort of convoys to Norway based at Rosyth where she sustained structural damage during anti-submarine operations at high speed in heavy weather and was sent to Falmouth for repair. On completion in May 1940, she took passage to assist in operations in Nore Command for evacuation of personnel from the Netherlands and Belgium but developed a machinery defect and was taken to Portsmouth for two days of repair, where her pennant number for visual signaling purposes changed to G45.
On 8 May she was nominated for service with the 14th Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean Sea and on 16 May, took passage from Plymouth for Gibraltar with sister destroyer Kandahar. On 23 May, they joined the flotilla at Alexandria, Egypt, and deployed for screening and patrol duties. Khartoum and Kandahar detached with other K-class destroyers Kimberley and Kingston for surveillance of Italian warship movements from Massawa on the Red Sea.
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