HMS Duke of York

HMS Duke of York was a King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy. Laid down in May 1937, the ship was constructed by John Brown and Company at Clydebank, Scotland, and commissioned into the Royal Navy on 4 November 1941, subsequently seeing combat service during the Second World War.

United Kingdom
Name: HMS Duke of York
Namesake: George VI (previously the Duke of York)
Ordered: 16 November 1936
Builder: John Brown and Company, Clydebank, Scotland
Yard number: 554
Laid down: 5 May 1937
Launched: 28 February 1940
Commissioned: 4 November 1941
Decommissioned: November 1951
Struck: 18 May 1957
Identification: Pennant number: 17
Fate: Scrapped in 1957 at Shipbreaking Industries, Ltd., Faslane, Scotland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Duke_of_York_(17)