HMS St. James (D65)
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| Name: | HMS St. James |
| Builder: | Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company |
| Laid down: | 20 May 1943 |
| Launched: | 7 June 1945 |
| Commissioned: | 12 July 1946 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Battle class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 2,315 tons standard 3,290 tons full load |
| Length: | 379 ft (116 m) |
| Beam: | 40 ft (12.2 m) |
| Draught: | 15.3 ft (4.7 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 steam turbines, 2 shafts, 2 boilers, 50,000 shp (37 MW) |
| Speed: | 35.75 knots (66 km/h) |
| Range: | 4,400 nautical miles (8,100 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h) |
| Complement: | 308 |
| Armament: | 2 × dual 4.5-inch (114 mm) gun 14 × Bofors 40 mm gun 8 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes 1 × Squid mortar |
| Service record | |
| Part of | 5th Destroyer Flotilla |
HMS St. James (D65) was a Battle-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was named in honour of the Battle of St. James Day which took place in 1666.
St. James was built by Fairfields at Govan. She was launched on 7 June 1945 and commissioned on the 12 July 1946.
In 1946, St. James joined the 5th Destroyer Flotilla, part of the Home Fleet. In 1950, St. James deployed on a Home Fleet Spring Cruise, which saw her, as-well as many other vessels, including the carrier Victorious and two other carriers, as-well as the immense battleship Vanguard, visit the Mediterranean, which included stops at Italy. The Group performed the usual naval exercises in the region, as-well as undertaking 'fly-the-flag' visits to a number of ports.
In 1953, St. James was placed in Reserve along with a number of her sister-ships. In 1957, St. James finally began a refit to modernise the destroyer, but just the following year, her refit was cancelled, and she was subsequently placed on the disposal list. In 1961, at Newport, St. James was broken up.
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