HMS Derwent (L83)
Navy: | Royal Navy |
Type: | Escort destroyer |
Class: | Hunt (Type III) |
Pennant: | L 83 |
Built by: | Vickers Armstrong (Barrow) |
Laid down: | 29 Dec, 1940 |
Launched: | 22 Aug, 1941 |
Commissioned: | 24 Apr, 1942 |
Complement: | 168 |
End service: | 19 March 1943 Heavily damaged by a torpedo from a German Ju.88 aircraft in Tripoli harbour, Libya. She was beached and eventually returned to England but was never repaired or returned to service. Scrapped in November 1946. |