Name HMS Chaplet Laid down 29 April 1943 Construction started 29 April 1943 Length 111 m | Ordered 24 July 1942 Commissioned 24 August 1945 Launched 18 July 1944 Weight 1,737 tons | |
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Identification Pennant number R52 later changed to D52 Fate Arrived for scrapping at Hughes Bolckow, Blyth on 6 November 1965 Builder John I. Thornycroft & Company | ||
HMS Chaplet was a C-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that was in service from August 1945, and which was scrapped in 1965.
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Construction
The Royal Navy ordered Chaplet on 24 July 1942, one of eight "Ch" subclass "Intermediate" destroyers of the 1942 Programme. She was laid down at the yard of Thornycroft, Woolston on 29 April 1943 and commissioned on 24 August 1945, too late for service in the Second World War.
Service
Chaplet was assigned to the 1st Destroyer Squadron based at Malta in the early 1950s. She was given an interim modernization in 1954, which saw her 'X' turret at the rear of the ship replaced by two Squid anti-submarine mortars. She saw duty during the Suez Crisis in 1956.
Decommissioning and disposal
Chaplet was decommissioned and laid up in 1961. She was sold for scrapping to Hughes Bolckow and arrived at their yard at Blyth on 6 November 1965.