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Name | HMS Varangian |
Builder | Vickers-Armstrongs, High Walker |
Laid down | 23 December 1941 |
Launched | 4 April 1943 |
Commissioned | 10 July 1943 |
Fate | Scrapped, 1 June 1949, Gateshead |
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General characteristics | |
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Length | 60 m (196 ft 10 in) |
Beam | 4.90 m (16 ft 1 in) |
Draught | 4.62 m (15 ft 2 in) |
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Complement | 33 |
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