HMS Kempenfelt (R03)

	HMS Kempenfelt being towed into Newcastle after serving off the Normandy coast
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Kempenfelt
Namesake	Richard Kempenfelt
Ordered	December 1941
Builder	John Brown & Company, Clydebank
Laid down	24 June 1942
Launched	8 May 1943
Commissioned	25 October 1943
Out of service	Sold to Yugoslavia in October 1956
Motto	Fideliter: Faithfully
Honours and; awards	Atlantic 1939; Anzio 1944; Normandy 1944; Okinawa 1945;
Notes	Pennant number: R03 later changed to D103
Badge	On a field Black a Swan proper between two wings Green over wavelets Silver and Blue.
Yugoslavia
Name	Kotor
Namesake	City of Kotor
Acquired	October 1956
Identification	R-21
Fate	Decommissioned in 1971 and sold for scrapping
General characteristics
Class and type	W-class destroyer
Displacement	1,710 tons (1,730 tonnes); 2,530 tons full (2,570 tonnes);
Length	362.75 ft (110.57 m) o/a
Beam	35.75 ft (10.90 m)
Draught	10 ft (3.0 m)
Propulsion	2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers,; Parsons single-reduction geared steam turbines,; 40,000 shp (30 MW), 2 shafts;
Speed	36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph) / 32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph) full
Range	4,675 nmi (8,658 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h)
Complement	225
Sensors and ; processing systems	Radar Type 272 target indication; Radar Type 291 air warning; Radar Type 285 fire control on director Mk.III(W); Radar Type 282 fire control on 40 mm mount Mk.IV;
Armament	4 × QF4.7-inch (120 mm) Mk.IX guns on single mounts CP Mk.XXII; 4 × QF 2-pounder (40 mm) Mk VIII guns, quad mount Mk.VII; 4 × A/A mountings;; twin 20 mm Oerlikon Mk.V; single Bofors 40 mm Mk.III guns; single QF 2 pdr Mk.XVI; 8 (4x2) tubes for 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo Mk.IX; 2 racks & 4 throwers for 70 depth charges;
Aircraft carried	None

HMS Kempenfelt was a W-class destroyer flotilla leader of the Royal Navy that served in the Second World War. She was the second destroyer of her name to have served in the war; the first Kempenfelt was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy in October 1939 and renamed HMCS Assiniboine.

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