HMS Avon Vale
HMS Avon Vale at Malta in 1941 | |
| History | |
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| United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Avon Vale |
| Ordered | 4 September 1939 |
| Builder | John Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd. (Clydebank, Scotland) |
| Yard number | 569 |
| Laid down | 12 February 1940 |
| Launched | 23 October 1940 |
| Commissioned | 17 February 1941 |
| Identification | Pennant number: L06 |
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| Fate | Scrapped in 1958 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Type II Hunt-class destroyer |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 85.34 m (280.0 ft) |
| Beam | 9.62 m (31.6 ft) |
| Draught | 2.51 m (8 ft 3 in) |
| Propulsion | 2 shaft Parsons geared turbines; 19,000 shp |
| Speed | 25.5 kn (47.2 km/h; 29.3 mph) |
| Range | 3,600 nmi (6,670 km) at 14 knots (26 km/h) |
| Complement | 164 |
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HMS Avon Vale (pennant number L06) was an escort destroyer of the Hunt Type II class. The Royal Navy ordered Avon Vale's construction three days after the outbreak of the Second World War. John Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd laid down her keel at their Clydebank yard on 12 February 1940, as Admiralty Job Number J1569. After a successful Warship Week national savings campaign in February 1942, Avon Vale was adopted by the civil community of Trowbridge, Wiltshire.