HMS Petard (G56)
| Navy: | RN |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Class: | P |
| Pennant: | G 56 |
| Built by: | Vickers Armstrong (Newcastle-on-Tyne, U.K.) : Vickers Armstrong (Barrow-in-Furness, U.K.) |
| Ordered: | 20 Oct, 1939 |
| Laid down: | 26 Dec, 1939 |
| Launched: | 27 Mar, 1941 |
| Commissioned: | 15 Jun, 1942 |
| End service: | Scrapped at Bo-ness in June 1967. |
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| Former name: | HMS Persistant |
