HMS Bedouin (F67)
_off_Iceland_c1941.jpg) HMS Bedouin at Hvalfjörður, Iceland | |
| Career (United Kingdom) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | HMS Bedouin |
| Builder: | William Denny, Dumbarton |
| Laid down: | January 1937 |
| Launched: | 21 December 1937 |
| Commissioned: | 15 March 1939 |
| Identification: | Pennant number: L67, later F67 |
| Fate: | Sunk 15 June 1942 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Tribal-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 2,020 tons |
| Length: | 377 ft (115 m) |
| Beam: | 36 ft 6 in (11.13 m) |
| Draught: | 13 ft (4.0 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × 22,000 shp Pearson geared turbine engines |
| Speed: | 36 knots (67 km/h) |
| Complement: | 190 |
| Armament: | 8 × 4.7-inch guns in four turrets 4 × 2-pounder pompom 4 × 21-inch torpedo tubes 2 × depth charge catapults |
HMS Bedouin was a Tribal-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service in World War II. She was launched on 21 December 1937 by William Denny and Brothers.
Service history
She served in the Second Battle of Narvik, where she was slightly damaged, and in the 1941 commando raid on the Lofoten islands. During the Battle of Mid-June, she was sunk by the combined action of Italian cruisers Raimondo Montecuccoli and Eugenio di Savoia and an SM.79 torpedo bomber on 15 June 1942. She was hit by at least 12 six-inch rounds and near-misses from the cruisers and an aerial torpedo before sinking. Bedouin managed to shoot down the torpedo bomber which delivered the coup de grâce to her. 28 men from her complement were killed in action and 213 were taken as prisoners of war by the Italian Navy.
Notes
References
- Brice, Martin H. (1971). The Tribals. London: Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-0245-2.
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.
- English, John (2001). Afridi to Nizam: British Fleet Destroyers 1937–43. Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-95-0.
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