- HMS Ithuriel (H05)
HMS "Ithuriel" (H05) was an I-class
destroyer laid down as "Gayret" for theTurkish Navy byVickers Armstrong Naval Construction Works atBarrow-in-Furness on24 May 1939 , but taken over by theRoyal Navy on the outbreak of the Second World War whilst still under construction.Launched on
15 December 1940 and commissioned on3 March 1942 . InWorld War II , she took part in Operation Harpoon andOperation Pedestal , the escorting of convoys to Malta in June and August1942 ."Ithuriel" was attacked by enemy German aircraft at Bone in
Algeria on28 November 1942 and damaged beyond repair.
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