HMS Inconstant (H49)

HMS Inconstant (H49)

HMS "Inconstant" (H49) was an I-class destroyer laid down as TCG "Muavenet" for the Turkish Navy by Vickers Armstrong Naval Construction Works at Barrow-in-Furness on 24 May 1939, purchased in September 1939 by the Royal Navy, launched on 24 February 1941 and commissioned on 24 January 1942.

"Inconstant" participated in the assault on Madagascar in May 1942, and attacked and sank the enemy German submarines "U-409" in the Mediterranean north-east of Algiers on 12 July 1943 and "U-767" while in company with the destroyers HMS|Fame|H78|6 and HMS|Havelock|H88|6 in the English Channel south-west of Guernsey on 18 June 1944. "Inconstant" was returned to Turkey on 9 March 1946 and renamed "Muavenet". She was discarded in 1960.


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