HMS Dunkirk (D09)
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HMS Dunkirk (D09)
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HMS Dunkirk (D09) was a later or 1943 Battle-class fleet destroyer of the British Royal Navy (RN). Though there were other ships of the Navy that had been named Dunkirk, as far back as the 1650s, it held added meaning after the evacuation from Dunkirk between late May and early June 1940, in which over 300,000 British, as well as French troops, were rescued by a ragtag fleet of ships. Dunkirk was built by Alexander Stephen and Sons of Govan. She was launched on 27 August 1945 and commissioned on
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Battle-class destroyer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Dunkirk_(D09)
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2022-06-14T15:26:09Z
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