HMS Scorpion

Survived

Type	Destroyer
Class	S
Later service	Kortenaer (Royal Netherlands Navy)
War	Second World War
Main guns	4 × 4.7-inch (120-mm) QF Mk IX guns (4×1)

Torpedoed Scharnhorst at the North Cape and picked up 30 of her 36 survivors. Sold to the Netherlands in 1945.

Normandy Invasion, 1944: the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Scorpion (G72), which carried Admiral Harold R. Stark, U.S. Navy, across the channel on his inspection tour on the beachhead, 14 June 1944. The photo was taken in an English port, just before Admiral Stark boarded the ship. Photo: U.S. Navy, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

4 × 4.7-inch (120-mm) QF Mk IX guns (4×1)
2 × 40mm Bofors (1x2)
8 × 20 mm guns anti-aircraft guns
8 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (2×4)

Builder	Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
Laid down	19 June 1941
Launched	26 August 1942
Commissioned	11 May 1943
Displacement	1,730 tons (standard)
Length	363 ft (111 m)
Speed	36.75 knots (68.06 km/h; 42.29 mph)
Complement	225

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched

26 August 1942

Battle of the North Cape

Survived

26 December 1943

Torpedo hits; picked up 30 survivors

Fate

Survived

Scrapped 1963