Name HMS Childers Laid down 27 November 1943 Decommissioned 1951 Launched 18 February 1945 Weight 1,737 tons | Ordered 24 July 1942 Commissioned 19 December 1945 Construction started 27 November 1943 Length 111 m | |
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Identification Pennant number R91 later changed to D91 | ||
HMS Childers was a C-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that was in service from December 1945, and scrapped in 1963.
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Construction
The Royal Navy ordered Childers on 24 July 1942, one of the eight Ch subclass of the C-class "Intermediate" destroyers of the 1942 Programme. She was built as a flotilla leader and commissioned in December 1946, too late for service in the Second World War.
Service
In 1946 Childers was assigned to the 1st Destroyer Squadron based at Malta. She saw service, along with other Royal Navy ships in preventing illegal immigration into Palestine in 1947. Her pennant number was also later changed to D90 from R91. She returned to the UK in 1950 and was placed in reserve in 1951. 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.
In 1958 she was laid up in reserve at Gibraltar.
Decommissioning and disposal
Childers was never recommissioned and was subsequently sold for scrapping at La Spezia, arriving there on 22 September 1963.