HMS Pathfinder (G10)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Pathfinder.
Career (United Kingdom)
Name: HMS Pathfinder
Ordered: 2 October 1939
Builder: Hawthorn Leslie and Company, Newcastle upon Tyne
Laid down: 5 March 1940
Launched: 10 April 1941
Commissioned: 13 April 1942
Identification: Pennant number: G10
Fate: Scrapped in 1948
Notes: Badge: On a Field per Pale wavy and White a bloodhound Proper.
General characteristics
Class and type:P-class destroyer
Displacement:1,690 tons (1,717 tonnes) standard
2,250 tons (2,286 tonnes) full load
Length:345 ft (105 m) o/a
Beam:35 ft (11 m)
Draught:9 ft (2.7 m)
Propulsion:2 x Admiralty 3-drum water-tube boilers, Parsons geared steam turbines, 40,000 shp (30,000 kW) on 2 shafts
Speed:36.75 knots (68.06 km/h)
Range:3,850 nautical miles (7,130 km) at 20 kn (37 km/h)
Complement:176
Armament:

HMS Pathfinder was a P class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She served during the Second World War, being damaged while serving in the Far East, and was scrapped after the end of the war.

The ship was built by Hawthorn Leslie & Co, and was launched on 10 April 1941, and commissioned in April 1942. During the Second World War, Pathfinder was active in a number of theatres, and helped to sink several enemy submarines.

Pathfinder was commanded by Commander Edward Albert Gibbs from January 1942 to November 1943, during which time she assisted the destroyer Ithuriel in sinking the Italian submarine Cobalto, assisted the destroyers Vimy and Quentin to sink the German submarine U-162, assisted in the rescue of nearly 5,000 survivors from the troopship Strathallan after it was torpedoed off Oran, Algeria. She also sank the German submarine U-203 with assistance from Swordfish aircraft flying off the aircraft carrier Biter.

On 11 February 1945, Pathfinder was hit by a Japanese bomber plane off Ramree, and was taken out of service. The ship was scrapped in November 1948 at Milford Haven.

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