HMS Kipling

HMS Kipling (F91)

Navy:	Royal Navy
Type:	Destroyer
Class:	K
Pennant:	F 91
Built by:	Yarrow Shipbuilders Ltd. (Scotstoun, Scotland)
Laid down:	20 Oct, 1937
Launched:	19 Jan, 1939
Commissioned:	12 Dec, 1939
Complement:	183
Lost:	11 May, 1942 (Lt. Cdr. Sir A. St Clair-Ford, RN., DSO), ( c 32-30’N,26-00’E ) by German Ju 88 bomber aircraft off Mersa Matruth in the eastern Mediterranean.

History:	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. 28 Dec, 1941 The German submarine U-75 was sunk in the Mediterranean near Mersa Matruh, in position 31.50'N, 26.40'E, by depth charges from the British destroyer HMS Kipling.