HMS Concord was a C-class

C class destroyer (1943)

The C class was a class of 32 destroyers of the Royal Navy that were launched from 1943 to 1945. The class was built in four flotillas of 8 vessels, the Ca, Ch, Co and Cr classes, ordered as the 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th Emergency Flotillas respectively...

 destroyer

Destroyer

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 of the Royal Navy

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She was initially ordered as HMS Corso during the Second World War, and was built by John I. Thornycroft & Company

John I. Thornycroft & Company

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, Southampton

Southampton

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. She was launched on 14 May 1945, renamed HMS Concord in June 1946 and commissioned on 20 December 1946. She was involved in the 'Amethyst incident' in 1949; Concord entered the river Yangtze and proceeded to a point off the Woosung Fort, the location of a heavy gun battery 38 miles from the mouth of the river. Lieutenant Commander Kerans, commanding Amethyst, had from the beginning requested that Concord should meet him there to give protection at the most critical point of his escape. There was no boom at the mouth of the river. Concord went on to serve during the Korean War

Korean War

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, before finally being decommissioned. She arrived at the breakers yard at Inverkeithing

Inverkeithing

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on 22 October 1962.