HMS Kashmir

Navy:	Royal Navy
Type:	Destroyer
Class:	K
Pennant:	F 12 /G12
Built by:	Thornycroft (Southampton, U.K.)
Laid down:	Oct, 1937
Launched:	4 Apr, 1939
Commissioned:	26 Oct, 1939
Complement:	183
Lost:	23 May, 1941 (Cdr. H. A. King, RN.) ( c 34-30’N, 23-15’E) Eastern Med. off south Crete was bombed and sunk by—1 bomb each from a German Ju.87 or Ju.88 dive bombers

History:	29 Nov, 1939 The German submarine U-35 was sunk in the North Sea, in position 60.53N, 02.47E, by depth charges from the British destroyers HMS Icarus, HMS Kingston and HMS Kashmir. 11 Oct, 1940 The battleship HMS Revenge sails from Plymouth with the destroyers HMS Javelin, HMS Jupiter, HMS Kelvin, HMS Kipling, HMS Jackal, HMS Jaguar and HMS Kashmir to shell the French port of Cherbourg. 20 Oct, 1940 The British destroyers HMS Kashmir, HMS Jaguar, HMS Broke and the Polish destroyer Blyskawica conducted a patrol in the English Channel. They detected four German destroyers. The enemy ships turned back to their base. The allied pursuit was unsuccessful
Former name:	HMS Javelin