Intrepid HMS 1936

[john sefton]

Name: HMS INTREPID (D10)
Builder: J. Samuel White, Cowes, Isle of Wight, Laid down: 13 January 1936, Launched: 17 December 1936, Identification: Pennant number: D10, Fate: Sunk by air attack, 27 September 1943
General characteristics: (as built)
Class and type: I-class destroyer, Displacement: 1,370 long tons (1,390 t) (standard), 1,888 long tons (1,918 t) (deep load), Length: 323 ft (98.5 m), Beam: 33 ft (10.1 m), Draught: 12 ft 5 in (3.8 m), Installed power: 34,000 shp (25,000 kW), Propulsion: 2 shafts, Parsons geared steam turbines, 3 Admiralty 3-drum water-tube boilers, Speed: 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph), Range: 5,530 nmi (10,240 km; 6,360 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph), Complement: 145, Sensors and processing systems: ASDIC, Armament: 4 × 1 - 4.7-inch (120 mm) guns, 2 × 4 - 0.5-inch (12.7 mm) machine guns, 2 × 5 - 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes, 20 × depth charges, 1 rail and 2 throwers, 60 × Mines.
I-Class Fleet Destroyer ordered from J. S. White at Cowes in October 1935 under the 1935 Build Programme. The ship was laid down on 6th January 1936 and launched on 17th December 1936 as the 7th RN warship to carry the name, introduced in 1747 for a French Prize. It was previously used for a cruiser sunk at Zeebrugge in 1918. Build was completed on 29th July 1937 and cost £258,965 which excluded Admiralty supplied items such as weapons and communications equipment. Following a successful WARSHIP WEEK National Savings campaign in March 1942 she was adopted by the civil community of Uxbridge, then in the county of Middlesex. This Class of destroyer was designed for use as minelayers
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 sunk in Leros harbour in the Aegean Sea on 27 September 1943. This was the second ship lost under the command of Commander Charles de Winton Kitcat during the war. Kitcat was in command of HMS IMPERIAL when she was lost while evacuating troops from Crete in 1941.
Sources: Wikipedia. http://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chrono ... TREPID.htm.
Mr P Crichton

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