HMS Vansittart

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HMS Vansittart was a destroyer, class Admiralty Modified W, that operated in the Royal Navy during and in the Second World War. The boat was launched 17 April, 1919, and was commissioned 5 November, 1919.

[edit] Career, accomplishments and loss

Approximate position of U 102, the Clearton and the HMS Vansittart.

HMS Vansittart was built by William Beardmore & Co. Not much is known of its actual career history, except the fact that it was responsible for the sinking of Unterseeboot 102 by the use of depth charges, on 1 July, 1940. As it happened, U 102 had just recently destroyed one of its only victims, the British merchant Clearton, in approximately the same general region. HMS Vansittart went on to save the surviviors of the Clearton, who numbered 26 people. (See map provided)

On the 25 February 1946, HMS Vansittart was sold to be broken down into scrap.

During its career it went under one reconstruction, of its Long Range Escort. Such maintenance was completed in June of 1943.