HMS Brazen

HMS Brazen (H80)

Navy:	Royal Navy
Type:	Destroyer
Class:	B Class
Pennant:	H 80
Built by:	Palmers Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd (Jarrow-on-Tyne, U.K.)
Laid down:	22 Jul, 1929
Launched:	25 Jul, 1930
Commissioned:	8 Apr, 1931
Complement:	138
Lost:	20 Jul, 1940 (Lt. Cdr. Culme-Seymour, Sir M., R. N.) was sunk off Dover by German aircraft. Loss of the ship reported. She was sunk while returning under tow, to port, Three planes were reported shot down. All the ship's crew were saved.

History:	15 Apr, 1940 The German submarine U-49 was sunk near Narvik Norway in position 68.53N, 16.59E, by depth charges from the British destroyers HMS Fearless and HMS Brazen.