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     D64 Scorpion     

Country: United Kingdom.
Class, [Type]: Weapon, [DD].

Builder: J.Samuel White and Company, Cowes, U.K.
Launch date: 15 August 1946.
Commission date: 17 September 1947.
Decommission date: 4 June 1971.

Displacement ( tons ): 2825 full load.
Dimensions ( metres ): 111 x 12 x 4,5.
Main machinery: 2 x Parsons steam turbines ( 40000 hp ), 2 x Foster-Wheeler boilers.
Speed ( knots ): 31.
Range ( miles ): 5000 at 20 knots.
Complement: 234.

Guns: 2 x 2 102mm Mk19, 3 x 2 40mm Bofors.
A/S weapons: A/S weapons: 1 x 3 Squid Mortar, later 1 x Mk10 Limbo A/S mortar.
Torpedoes: 2 x 5 533mm torpedo tubes.

Radars: Air/Surface: Type 291; Fire control: Type 262, Type 275.

Year of visit the Black Sea:  1962

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