Navy | The Royal Navy |
Type | Escort destroyer |
Class | Hunt (Type III) |
Pennant | L 19 |
Built by | Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. (Govan, Scotland) |
Ordered | 28 Jul 1940 |
Laid down | 16 Jan 1941 |
Launched | 27 Apr 1942 |
Commissioned | |
End service | |
History | Loaned to the Free French Navy and renamed La Combattante. Claimed torpedoed and sunk east of Dungeness by the German (Seehund) midget submarine U-5330 (Lt. Sparbrodt). She more likely sank on a mine laid on 16 February 1945 by German MTBs (Schnellboote or E-boats) off the Humber estuary. |
Career notes | Became the Free French destroyer La Combattante |
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