HMS Ilex (D61)

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Career
Built By:	John Brown and Company, Limited, Clydebank, Scotland
Laid down:	10 March 1936
Launched:	28 January 1937
Commissioned:	7 July 1937
Paid off:
Fate:	Scrapped in Sicily, 1948
Penant:
General Characteristics
Type:	Destroyer
Displacement:	1,340 tons (except Inglefield 1456 tons) (standard) 1,980 tons (full load)
Length:	323 ft (98 m) (except Inglefield 337 ft)
Beam:	33 ft
Draught:	12 ft 5 inch (13 ft 4 inch full load)
Propulsion:	Parsons geared turbines, 2 shafts, 3 boilers, 34,000 hp (30 MW)
Speed:	36 knots (70 km/h)
Range:
Complement:	145
Armament:	four (Inglefield 5) 4.7 inch (120 mm) guns eight 0.5 inch (13 mm) AA machine guns 10 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes, (2 x5) (8 torpedo tubes in ex "Turkish" ships) 45 depth charges.
Armour:
Aircraft:	none
Source:	Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922-1946

HMS Ilex (D61), named after the Holly genus, was an I-class destroyer that served with the Royal Navy during World War II.

Ilex attacked and sank the enemy German submarine U-42 south-west of Ireland on 13 October 1939 in company with the destroyer Imogen, and participated in the Battle of Calabria and the Battle of Cape Spada in July 1940, and the Battle of Cape Matapan in March 1941. Ilex was sold for scrap at Malta on 22 January 1946 and broken up in Sicily in 1948.

See HMS Ilex for other ships of this name.