HMS Ivanhoe (D16)
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| Career |  |
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| Built By: | Yarrow Shipbuilders Limited, Scotstoun, Glasgow |
| Laid down: | 6 February 1936, launched on and commissioned on |
| Launched: | 11 February 1937 |
| Commissioned: | 24 August 1937 |
| Paid off: | |
| Fate: | Mined and sank, North Sea, 1 September 1940. |
| Penant: | |
| General Characteristics | |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,340 tons (except Inglefield 1456 tons) (standard) 1,980 tons (full load) |
| Length: | 323 ft (98 m) (except Inglefield 337 ft) |
| Beam: | 33 ft |
| Draught: | 12 ft 5 inch (13 ft 4 inch full load) |
| Propulsion: | Parsons geared turbines, 2 shafts, 3 boilers, 34,000 hp (30 MW) |
| Speed: | 36 knots (70 km/h) |
| Range: | |
| Complement: | 145 |
| Armament: | four (Inglefield 5) 4.7 inch (120 mm) guns eight 0.5 inch (13 mm) AA machine guns 10 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes, (2 x5) (8 torpedo tubes in ex "Turkish" ships) 45 depth charges. |
| Armour: | |
| Aircraft: | none |
| Source: | Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922-1946 |
HMS Ivanhoe (D16) was an I-class destroyer that served with the Royal Navy during World War II.
Ivanhoe attacked and sank the enemy German submarine U-45 south-west of Ireland on 14 October 1939 in company with the destroyers Intrepid and Inglefield.
Ivanhoe struck a mine as she operated on a minelaying mission off the Dutch coast, and sank in the North Sea off the Frisian Islands in the Netherlands on 1 September 1940.
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