Navy: | Royal Navy |
Type: | Destroyer |
Class: | T |
Pennant: | R 00 |
Built by: | John Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd. (Clydebank, Scotland) |
Laid down: | 10 Nov, 1941 |
Launched: | 23 Sep, 1942 |
Commissioned: | 8 Mar, 1943 |
History: |
Sold to be broken up for scrap on 27 February
1970. Scrapped at Newport in May 1970. |
19 Sep, 1944 The German submarine U-407 was sunk in the Mediterranean south of Milos, in position 36º27'N, 24º33'E, by depth charges from the British destroyers HMS Troubridge and HMS Terpsichore and the Polish destroyer ORP Garland. |