HMS Boreas (H77)
HMS Boreas was a B-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy around 1930. Initially assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet, she was transferred to the Home Fleet in 1936. The ship then patrolled Spanish waters enforcing the arms blockade during the first year of the Spanish Civil War of 1936–39. She spent most of World War II on convoy escort duties in the English Channel and the North Atlantic, based at Dover, Gibraltar, and Freetown, Sierra Leone. Boreas also served two brief tours with the Mediterranean Fleet and participated in Operation Husky, the 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily. She was loaned to the Royal Hellenic Navy the next year after conversion into an escort destroyer. She was renamed Salamis and served in the Aegean for the rest of the war. Salamis became a training ship after the
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HMS Boreas (H77)
HMS Boreas was a B-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy around 1930. Initially assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet, she was transferred to the Home Fleet in 1936. The ship then patrolled Spanish waters enforcing the arms blockade during the first year of the Spanish Civil War of 1936–39. She spent most of World War II on convoy escort duties in the English Channel and the North Atlantic, based at Dover, Gibraltar, and Freetown, Sierra Leone. Boreas also served two brief tours with the Mediterranean Fleet and participated in Operation Husky, the 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily. She was loaned to the Royal Hellenic Navy the next year after conversion into an escort destroyer. She was renamed Salamis and served in the Aegean for the rest of the war. Salamis became a training ship after the
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Die HMS Boreas (H77) war ein Z ...... rer der B-Klasse verschrottet.
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El HMS Boreas (H77) fue un des ...... nte la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
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HMS Boreas was a B-class destr ...... Britain and scrapped in 1951.
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1944-02-11
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1944-03-25
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1931-02-20
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1951-05-10
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1929-07-22
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9,84504e+1
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1929-03-22
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1930-06-11
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*Returned to the Royal Navy, 10 May 1951
*Sold forscrap, 23 November 1951
Loaned to theRoyal Hellenic Navy, 11 February 1944
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*4 × 1 - 4.7-inch (120 mm) Mk ...... charges, 1 rail and 2 throwers
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Pennant number: H77
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*2 × shafts
*2 × Parsons geared steam turbines
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Type 119 ASDIC
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Die HMS Boreas (H77) war ein Z ...... rer der B-Klasse verschrottet.
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HMS Boreas was a B-class destr ...... came a training ship after the
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Salamis
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