HMS Cassandra (R62)

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Cassandra
Ordered	February 1942
Builder	Yarrow Shipbuilders, Scotstoun
Laid down	30 January 1943
Launched	29 November 1943
Completed	28 July 1944
Commissioned	28 July 1944
Renamed	Ordered as HMS Tourmaline Renamed HMS Cassandra in November 1942
Identification	Pennant number: R62 initially, but changed to D10 in 1945
Motto	Furiosior undis: 'More mad than the waves'
Honours and awards	Arctic 1944
Fate	Arrived at breaker's yard for scrapping on 28 April 1967
Badge	On a Field Blue, a woman's head affronte with two snakes wreathed round her neck and poised about her ears all Proper.
General characteristics
Class and type	C-class destroyer
Displacement	1,710 tons (standard) 2,520 tons (full)
Length	363 ft (111 m) o/a
Beam	35.75 ft (10.90 m)
Draught	10 ft (3.0 m) light, 14.5 ft (4.4 m) full
Propulsion	2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers, Parsons geared steam turbines, 40,000 shp (30,000 kW), 2 shafts
Speed	37 knots (69 km/h)
Range	615 tons oil, 1,400 nautical miles (2,600 km) at 32 knots (59 km/h)
Complement	186
Armament	3 × QF 4.5 in (114 mm) L/45 guns Mark IV on mounts CP Mk.V 2 × Bofors 40 mm L/60 guns on twin mount "Hazemeyer" Mk.IV, or; 4 × anti-aircraft mountings; Bofors 40 mm, single mount Mk.III QF 2-pdr Mk VIII, single mount Mk.XVI Oerlikon 20 mm, single mount P Mk.III Oerlikon 20 mm, twin mount Mk.V 2 × pentuple tubes for 21 inch (533 mm) torpedoes Mk.IX 4 throwers and 2 racks for 96 depth charges 6 × Squid anti-submarine launchers

HMS Cassandra was a C-class destroyer of the Royal Navy, ordered in February 1942 from Yarrow Shipbuilders.^[1] She was originally to be named HMS Tourmaline but this was changed to Cassandra in November 1942 to fit her revised class name. She was laid down on 30 January 1943 and launched on 29 November 1943.^[1]