HMS Avon Vale

	HMS Avon Vale at Malta in 1941
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Avon Vale
Ordered	4 September 1939
Builder	John Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd. (Clydebank, Scotland)
Yard number	569
Laid down	12 February 1940
Launched	23 October 1940
Commissioned	17 February 1941
Identification	Pennant number: L06
Honours and; awards	Atlantic 1942–43; Malta Convoys 1941–42; Libya 1941–42; Sirte 1942; North Africa 1942–43; Adriatic 1944; English Channel 1943–44;
Fate	Scrapped in 1958
General characteristics
Class and type	Type II Hunt-class destroyer
Displacement	1,050 tons standard;; 1,490 tons full load;
Length	85.34 m (280.0 ft)
Beam	9.62 m (31.6 ft)
Draught	2.51 m (8 ft 3 in)
Propulsion	2 shaft Parsons geared turbines; 19,000 shp
Speed	25.5 kn (47.2 km/h; 29.3 mph)
Range	3,600 nmi (6,670 km) at 14 knots (26 km/h)
Complement	164
Armament	6 × QF 4 in Mark XVI on twin mounts Mk. XIX; AA 2 × 4 .5-inch Vickers, 2 × 20 mm; 6 Thornycroft depth charge throwers;

HMS Avon Vale (pennant number L06) was an escort destroyer of the Hunt Type II class. The Royal Navy ordered Avon Vale's construction three days after the outbreak of the Second World War. John Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd laid down her keel at their Clydebank yard on 12 February 1940, as Admiralty Job Number J1569. After a successful Warship Week national savings campaign in February 1942, Avon Vale was adopted by the civil community of Trowbridge, Wiltshire.

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