HMS Ivanhoe (D16)

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HMS Ivanhoe
Career The White Ensign of the Royal Navy.
Built By: Yarrow Shipbuilders Limited, Scotstoun, Glasgow
Laid down: 6 February 1936, launched on and commissioned on
Launched: 11 February 1937
Commissioned: 24 August 1937
Paid off:
Fate: Mined and sank, North Sea, 1 September 1940.
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 Ivanhoe (D16) was an I-class destroyer that served with the Royal Navy during World War II.

Ivanhoe attacked and sank the enemy German submarine U-45 south-west of Ireland on 14 October 1939 in company with the destroyers Intrepid and Inglefield.

Ivanhoe struck a mine as she operated on a minelaying mission off the Dutch coast, and sank in the North Sea off the Frisian Islands in the Netherlands on 1 September 1940.


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