HMS Intrepid (D10)
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| Name: | HMS Intrepid (D10) |
| Builder: | J. Samuel White, Cowes, Isle of Wight |
| Laid down: | 13 January 1936 |
| Launched: | 17 December 1936 |
| Fate: | Sunk by air attack, 27 September 1943 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | I class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,370 tons (1,391 tonnes) standard 1,888 tons (1,918 tonnes) full load |
| Length: | 323 ft (98 m) (length overall) |
| Beam: | 33 ft (10 m) |
| Draught: | 12.5 ft (3.8 m) deep |
| Propulsion: | 3 × Admiralty 3-drum water tube boilers, Parsons geared steam turbines, 34,000 shp on 2 shafts |
| Speed: | 35.6 kt |
| Range: | 5,530 nmi at 15 kt |
| Complement: | 145 |
| Armament: | 4 × QF 4.7 in Mk. IX L/45 (119 mm) guns, single mounts CP Mk.XVIII 8 × QF 0.5 in Mk.I (12.7 mm) guns, quad mounts Mk.I 10 (5×2) tubes for 21 in (533 mm) torpedoes |
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Intrepid.
HMS Intrepid (D10) was an I-class destroyer that served with Royal Navy during World War II.
In World War II, Intrepid attacked and sank the German submarine U-45 south-west of Ireland on 14 October 1939 in company with the destroyers HMS Ivanhoe and HMS Inglefield. She participated in the pursuit and destruction of the German battleship Bismarck in May 1941, and in Operation Pedestal, the escorting of a convoy to Malta in August 1942.
Intrepid was attacked by German Ju 88 aircraft and sank off Leros Island in the Aegean Sea on 27 September 1943.
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