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HMAS Napier (G97)
HMAS ''Napier'' (G97/D13) was an N class destroyer serving in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) during World War II. Built during 1939 and 1940, the destroyer was commissioned into the RAN, although she was ordered and owned by the British government. During 1941, ''Napier'' operated in the Mediterranean, before being transferred to the British Eastern Fleet at the start of 1942, then to south Atlantic operations in early 1944. In 1945, ''Napier'' was assigned to the British Pacific Fleet, and spent the rest of World War II in the fight against Japan. After the war's end, the destroyer was decommissioned and returned to the British. She was sold off in 1955, and broken up in 1956.
==Design and construction==
The N class destroyer had a displacement of 1,760 tons at standard load, and 2,353 tons at full load.〔Cassells, ''The Destroyers'', p. 51〕 ''Napier'' was long overall and long between perpendiculars, had a beam of , and a maximum draught of .〔 Propulsion was provided by Admiralty 3-drum boilers connected to Parsons geared steam turbines, which provided 40,000 shaft horsepower to the ship's two propellers.〔Cassells, ''The Destroyers'', p. 52〕 ''Napier'' was capable of reaching .〔 The ship's company consisted of 226 officers and sailors.〔
The ship's armament consisted of six 4.7-inch QF Mark XII guns in three twin mounts, a single 4-inch QF Mark V gun, a 2-pounder 4-barrel Pom Pom, four 0.5-inch machine guns, four 20 mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns, four .303 Lewis machine guns, two Pentad dual torpedo launcher tube sets (with 8 torpedoes carried), two depth-charge throwers and one depth-charge chute (with 45 charges carried).〔Cassells, ''The Destroyers'', pp. 51–2〕 The 4-inch gun was removed later in ''Napier''s career.〔
''Napier'' was the first of the eight-ship N class laid down under the War Emergency Programme when construction started at the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company shipyard in Govan, Scotland on 26 July 1939.〔 The destroyer was launched on 22 May 1940 by the wife of one of the company directors, and was commissioned into the RAN on 28 November 1940.〔 Although commissioned as an Australian warship, ''Napier'' remained the property of the Royal Navy.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=HMAS Napier )〕 The ship was named after Scottish Admiral Sir Charles Napier, with the ship's badge taken from the family coat of arms, and cost 403,960 pounds to build.〔
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