HMS Exmouth

Navy:	Royal Navy
Type:	Destroyer
Class:	E
Pennant:	H 02
Mod:	Flotilla leader
Built by:	Portsmouth Dockyard (Portsmouth, U.K.): Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. (Govan, Scotland)
Laid down:	16 May, 1933
Launched:	7 Feb, 1934
Commissioned:	3 Oct, 1934
Complement:	192
Lost:	21 Jan,1940 (Capt.R.S. Benson)(58°18.46' N-002°28.94' W) 1 torpedo from German U-Boat U-22 (Lt. Cdr. Jenisch) off Tarbett Ness in the Moray Firth. The wreck lies in 40 meters of water. 15 officers and 173 ratings were killed.
History:	MS Exmouth (Capt. Richard Stoddart Benson, DSO, RN) was torpodoed on 21 January 1940 by the German submarine U-22 off Tarbett Ness in the Moray Firth. HMS Exmouth was hit at 0444 hrs, sinking with no survivors east-south-east of Wick, Scotland. *Commanding Officer:* Capt. Richard Stoddart Benson, RN 31 July 1939 - 21 January 1940+ DSO awarded on 23 December 1939 Hit by U-boat Sunk on 21 Jan, 1940 by U-22 (Jenisch)