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History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Albuera
Builder	Vickers Armstrong, Newcastle on Tyne
Laid down	16 September 1943
Launched	28 August 1945
Fate	Broken up incomplete 1950
General characteristics
Class and type	Battle-class destroyer
Displacement	2,325 tons standard 3,430 tons full load
Length	379 ft (116 m)
Beam	40 ft (12 m)
Draught	15.3 ft (4.7 m)
Propulsion	2 steam turbines, 2 shafts, 2 boilers, 50,000 shp (37 MW)
Speed	35.75 knots (66.21 km/h; 41.14 mph)
Range	4,400 nmi (8,100 km; 5,100 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement	268
Armament	2 × dual 4.5-inch (114 mm) gun 1 × single 4-inch (102 mm) gun 14 × Bofors 40 mm gun 10 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes 1 × Squid mortar

HMS Albuera ( pennant number I51) was a Royal Navy Battle-class destroyer, ordered on 10 March 1943 from Vickers Armstrong on the Tyne. She was laid down on 16 September 1943 and launched on 28 August 1945. The order was cancelled on 15 October 1945 and she was sold incomplete for scrapping to Thos. W. Ward, arriving at Inverkeithing on 21 November 1950.

References

1. Lenton, H.T. (1970). Navies of the Second World War British Fleet and Escort Destroyers Volume 2. London: Macdonald. p. 60. ISBN 0356031225.

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