HMS Ilex (D61)

Career (UK)

Name:	HMS Ilex
Builder:	John Brown and Company, Clydebank, Scotland
Laid down:	10 March 1936
Launched:	28 January 1937
Commissioned:	7 July 1937
Fate:	Sold 1946, scrapped 1948
General characteristics
Class and type:	I class destroyer

Service record
Operations	Battle of Calabria (1940) Battle of Cape Spada (1940) Battle of Cape Matapan (1941)
Victories	Sank U-42 (1939)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Ilex.

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 HMS 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.

v • d • e I class destroyers

Royal Navy	Icarus • *Ilex* • Imogen • Imperial • Impulsive • Inglefield • Intrepid • Isis • Ivanhoe • Inconstant • Ithuriel

Turkish Navy	Sultanhisar • Demirhisar

List of destroyer classes of the Royal Navy