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HMS Adamant |
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HMS Adamant Laid Down : 18th May 1939 Launched : 30th November 1940 Completed : 28th February 1942 Type : Depot Ship Class : Builder : Harland and Wolff Country : UK Pennants : F64, I64, A164 Fate : Scrapped 11th September 1970 |
| Built at Harland and Wolf. Displacement: 12,500 tons, Speed: 17 knots Compliment: 1,273 Armament: Eight 4.5-inch AA guns in Pairs plus Sixteen 2 - pounder AA guns in fours, Eight 20mm AA and eight .5-inch AA . She carried in store 117 21-inch Torpedos.Served in the eastern Fleet until 1944. Then went to the pacific. Finally scrapped at Inverkeithing September 1970. |
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19th May 1939 - Laid down at the Harland and Wolff shipyard. November 1944 - Capt. B. Bryant, DSO++, DSC November 1944 - British Pacific Fleet 3rd December 1945 - Sailed Hong Kong 4th March 1948 - Arrived Portsmouth from the Far East 15th June 1953 - Participated in 1953 Coronation Review 12th September 1963 - Capt. Sir William David Stewart Scott Assumed Command February 1964 - Capt. Sir William David Stewart Scott Relinquished Command | |||
HMS Adamant Artwork Collection |
  Group Up- Half Ahead Starboard by Robert Barbour. |
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