HMS Chequers

	HMS Chequers on completion, 15 September 1945.
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Chequers
Ordered	24 July 1942
Builder	Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, (Greenock, Scotland)
Laid down	4 May 1943
Launched	30 October 1944
Commissioned	28 September 1945
Identification	Pennant number: R61 later changed to D61
Fate	Sold to John Cashmore Ltd on 23 July 1966
General characteristics
Class and type	C-class destroyer
Displacement	1710 tons
Length	362.75 ft (110.57 m)
Beam	35.66 ft (10.87 m)
Draught	10 ft (3.0 m) (mean), 16 ft (4.9 m) (max.)
Installed power	40,000 hp (30,000 kW)
Propulsion	Parsons geared turbines, 2 shafts; 2 Admiralty 3-drum type boilers
Speed	36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Complement	186
Armament	4 x QF 4.5 in (114 mm) L/45 guns Mark IV on mounts CP Mk.V; 4 x 20 mm anti-aircraft weapons; 4 x 21 inch (533 mm) torpedoes; 2 x Squid anti-submarine mortars (after 1954);

HMS Chequers was a C-class destroyer, of the "Ch" subclass, of the Royal Navy that was in service from December 1945, and which was scrapped in 1966.

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