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HMS Constance (R71)

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Name
  
HMS Constance

Laid down
  
11 March 1943

Construction started
  
11 March 1943

Draft
  
3.58 m

Ordered
  
12 September 1942

Commissioned
  
6 June 1945

Launched
  
22 June 1944

Builder
  
Vickers-Armstrongs

Identification
  
Pennant number R71, later changed to D71

Motto
  
Desirmais  "Thereafter"

HMS Constance was a C-class destroyer of the Royal Navy launched on 22 June 1944.

After the war she was allocated to the 8th Destroyer squadron for service in the Far East. This included deployments as part of United Nations operations, as part of the Korean War. She returned from the Far East and was listed for disposal in 1955. She was sold to Thos W Ward for scrapping at Inverkeithing, arriving there on 8 March 1956.

Publications

  • Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475. 

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