HMS Imogen (D44)
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| Name: | HMS Imogen |
| Builder: | Hawthorn Leslie and Company |
| Laid down: | 18 January 1936 |
| Launched: | 30 October 1936 |
| Commissioned: | 2 June 1937 |
| Fate: | Sunk by collision 16 July 1940 |
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| Class and type: | I class destroyer |
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| Victories | Sank U-42 (1939) and U-63 (1940) |
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Imogen.
HMS Imogen (D44) was a British Royal Navy I-class destroyer that served during World War II.
Imogen attacked and sank the enemy German submarines U-42 south-west of Ireland on 13 October 1939 in company with the destroyer HMS Ilex, and U-63 in the North Sea while in company with the destroyer HMS Inglefield and the submarine HMS Narwhal on 25 February 1940. She collided with the cruiser HMS Glasgow and sank off Pentland Firth on 16 July 1940.
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