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HMS Racehorse (H 11)

Destroyer of the R class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassR 
PennantH 11 
Built byJohn Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd. (Clydebank, Scotland) 
OrderedMay, 1940 
Laid down25 Jun, 1941 
Launched1 Jun, 1942 
Commissioned30 Oct, 1942 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistorySold to be broken up for scrap on 8 December 1949.
Scrapped at Troon.

Commanding Officers:
Cdr. Anthony Frank Burnell-Nugent, DSC, RN
15 September 1942 – 5 December 1943

Cdr. Julius John Casement, DSC, RN
5 December 1943 – 8 August 1945

Cdr. George Emery Fardell, RN
8 August 1945 – still in command in October 1945 

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