HMS Opportune (G80)

Ships and Boats

HMS Opportune was an O-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. Ordered from John I. Thornycroft & Company at Woolston on 3 September 1939 for the 1st Emergency Flotilla, she was commissioned on 14 August 1942. She served throughout the Second World War, mainly escorting convoys, and remained in Royal Navy service until the mid-1950s. She was the second Royal Navy ship to bear the name Opportune.

Class: O-class destroyer
Commissioned: 14 August 1942
Wartime role: Convoy escort ship

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Article: HMS Opportune (G80) (English Wikipedia)
Wikidata: Q5633594
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Illustration: By Hampton, J A (Lt), Royal Navy official photographer. Public domain · File page on Wikimedia Commons
Hampton, J A (Lt), Royal Navy official photographer, This photograph A 22473 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums(collection no. 4700-01)
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