HMS Concord (R63)

HMS Concord was a C-class destroyer of the Royal Navy.

She was initially ordered as HMS Corso during the Second World War, and was built by John I. Thornycroft & Company, Southampton. 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, before finally being decommissioned. She arrived at the breakers yard at Inverkeithing on 22 October 1962.