HMS Kipling (F91)

Career (United Kingdom)
Name:	HMS Kipling
Builder:	Yarrow, Scotstoun
Laid down:	20 October 1937
Launched:	19 January 1939
Commissioned:	12 December 1939
Identification:	Pennant number: F91
Fate:	Sunk by the Luftwaffe's Lehrgeschwader 1 at 32°23′24″N 26°11′24″E / 32.39000°N 26.19000°E / 32.39000; 26.19000Coordinates: 32°23′24″N 26°11′24″E / 32.39000°N 26.19000°E / 32.39000; 26.19000
General characteristics
Class and type:	K-class destroyer
Displacement:	1690 tons

HMS Kipling was a K-class destroyer of the Royal Navy laid down by Yarrow, Scotstoun on 20 October 1937, launched on 19 January 1939, by the daughter of the poet Rudyard Kipling, and commissioned on 12 December 1939. On 28 December 1941 Kipling sank the German submarine U-75. Kipling was attacked by German Ju-88 bombers of Lehrgeschwader 1 north-west of Mersa Matruh in Egypt on 11 May 1942 and sunk by Joachim Helbig.

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