HMS Roebuck (H95)
Roebuck in June 1943
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| Name: | HMS Roebuck |
| Ordered: | May 1940 |
| Builder: | Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. |
| Laid down: | 19 June 1941 |
| Launched: | 10 December 1942 (premature) |
| Commissioned: | 10 June 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | 1962 |
| Identification: | pennant number H95/F195 |
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| Fate: | Scrapped, 1968 |
| Badge: | On a Field White, a Roebuck guardant proper. |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | R-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,705 long tons (1,732 t) |
| Length: | 358 ft (109 m) |
| Propulsion: | Geared turbines, 2 shafts generating 40,000 shp (29,828 kW) |
| Speed: | 37 knots (69 km/h; 43 mph) |
| Complement: | 175 |
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HMS Roebuck was an R-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service during World War II. She was the fifteenth ship to carry this traditional ship name, after a small deer native to the British Isles, which was used as far back as the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.
Ordered in May 1940 from Scotts shipyard in Greenock, construction was delayed and she was not laid down until 19 June 1941.Roebuck then had the dubious honour of being launched prematurely by an air raid on 10 December 1942, her partially complete hulk lying submerged in the dockyard for three months before it was salvaged and completed in May 1943.
After sea trials Roebuck was accepted into service on 10 June and assigned to the 11th Destroyer Flotilla of the Eastern Fleet, first taking passage to Scapa Flow to work-up with Home Fleet. In August she was prepared for foreign service and then took passage to Freetown, finally joining the Flotilla in the Indian Ocean in September, which was deployed for convoy defence and patrols.
On 12 March Roebuck formed part of the escort for the aircraft carrier Battler and the cruisers Suffolk and Newcastle, with the destroyer Quadrant, during the search in the Indian Ocean for the German U-Boat supply ship Brake. After being intercepted by aircraft Brake was scuttled by her own crew.
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