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Commissioned:	23 January 1945
Decommissioned:	1963
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HMS Trafalgar (D77) was a Battle-class destroyer of the Royal Navy (RN). She was named after the Battle of Trafalgar, a decisive British victory over a Franco-Spanish Fleet in 1805. Trafalgar was built by Swan Hunter on the Tyne. She was launched on 12 January 1944 and commissioned on the on 23 July 1945.

In 1946, Trafalgar deployed to the Far East as part of the 19th Destroyer Flotilla , which was filled with her sister-ships, and which performed a variety of duties in that region while based there. It was a brief stay however, for just the following year, Trafalgar, along with the rest of the 19th Flotilla, returned to the UK via the Mediterranean. Upon returning home to the UK, Trafalgar was placed in Reserve, an occurrence quite familar to her sister-ships during the 1950s.

In 1958, Trafalgar became the leader of the 7th Destroyer Squadron , having spells with the Home and Mediterranean Fleets. In 1962, Trafalgar along with ships of the squadron, sailed for the sunny climes of the Mediterranean, performing a number of naval exercises, as-well as fly-the-flag visits. While there, in Malta, Trafalgar was rammed accidentally by her sister-ship Solebay, part of the 1st Destroyer Squadron which was intended to relieved the 7th Squadron. She, with the rest of the 7th Destroyer Squadron, finally returned to the UK in 1963, where upon Trafalgar decommissioned, and was subsequently being placed in Reserve at Devonport Dockyard. She was eventually broken up for scrap at Dalmuir in 1970.

See HMS Trafalgar for other ships of the name.