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HMS Caprice - World Naval Ships Directory

HMS Caprice

Name : HMS Caprice
Laid Down : 28th September 1942
Launched : 16th September 1943
Completed : 5th April 1944
Type : Destroyer
Class : C
Builder : Yarrow
Country : UK
Pennants : R01, D65 BPF, D01
Fate : Sold for scrap 22nd June 1979.

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HMS Caprice, June 1950.


HMS Caprice, September 1967.


HMS Caprice, August 1973.

Timeline Entries :


28th September 1942 - Laid down
16th September 1943 - Pennant R01
16th September 1943 - Launched
16th September 1943 - Launched
16th September 1943 - Penan R01
4th March 1944 - Lt.Cdr. Gordon Wylie McKendrick, RN In Command
5th April 1944 - Commissioned
1945 - Pennant D65 British Pacific Fleet
24th April 1945 - Sailed Scapa Flow for Gibraltar
30th April 1945 - Arrived Gibraltar
7th January 1961 - Sent to assist Merchant ship aground off Borneo
29th June 1963 - At British Guana
14th August 1963 - Arrived The Bahamas
25th November 1965 - At Rosyth
2nd January 1967 - Broke down on her way to resume the Rhodesian oil blockade
1979 - Scrapped
2nd January 1979 - At Plymouth
2nd January 1979 - At Plymouth
November 1979 - Scrapped at Queensborough

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Last edited : 18:11, March 7, 2011
By : jbryce1437

First Added : 14:51, December 14, 2010
By : kc


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