HMS Keith (D06) leader
| Navy: | Royal Navy |
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Type: |
Destroyer |
| Class: | B |
| Pennant: | D 06 |
| Mod: | Flotilla leader: (Rear Adm. Wake-Walker) |
| Built by: | Vickers Armstrong (Barrow-in-Furness, U.K.) |
| Laid down: | 1 Oct, 1929 |
| Launched: | 10 Jul, 1930 |
| Commissioned: | 20 Mar, 1931 |
| Complement: | 157 |
| Lost: | 1 June, 1940 (Capt. D. J. R. Simpson,
RN.) also Commanding Officer of the 19th Destroyer Flotilla Flagship Rear-Adml
Wake-Walker) was sunk by German Ju87 Stuka dive bombers off Dunkirk,
France
40 of the crew were killed, while she
was participating in the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from
France. The wreck lies in 23 meters of water in position 51º04'43"N, 02º08'46"E.
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