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HMS Matapan (D43)

UK Royal Navy

1973-1978

Later Battle class

DD · Destroyer

Flight Deck:MP
Call Sign:MVFW
Shipyard:John Brown

Timeline

DateEvent
1943 Ordered
Mar 11, 1943 Laid down
Apr 30, 1945 Launched
Sep 5, 1947 Commissioned as I43 and laid up at Devonport, after 150 hours of sea trials
1971 Refit towed to Portsmouth and converted by 1973 into a sonar trials ship and fitted with a flight deck towed array sonar Type 2031
1978 Decommissioned
May 18, 1979 Fate: transfered Sold as scrap to H K Vickers Ltd
Aug 1979 Fate: scrapped Blyth at Blyth in Northumbria Breakers Yard