Grimsby class sloop
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With the realisation that war was approaching, 13 Grimsby class sloops were laid down in the mid to late 1930s. Of these eight were built in the United Kingdom
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for the Royal Navy
Royal Navy
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, four in Australia
Australia
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for the Royal Australian Navy
Royal Australian Navy
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and one for India. Armament varied considerably between ships with the four Australian ships being similar to but armed with an additional 4 inches (101.6 mm) gun.
Losses during World War II
World War II
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were , and .
Some survivors of this class served into the 1960s.
First group
— built by Devonport Royal DockyardHMNB Devonport
Her Majesty's Naval Base Devonport , is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy . HMNB Devonport is located in Devonport, in the west of the city of Plymouth in Devon, England...
, laid down 23 January 1933, launched 19 July 1933, completed 17 May 1934, bombed by Italian
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aircraft off Tobruk
Tobruk
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25 May 1941. — built by Devonport, laid down 6 February 1933, launched 9 August 1933, completed 12 July 1934, sold into mercantile service 1946, to Royal Danish Navy
Royal Danish Navy
The Royal Danish Navy is the sea-based branch of the Danish Defence force. The RDN is mainly responsible for maritime defence and maintaining the sovereignty of Danish, Greenlandic and Faroese territorial waters...
as Galathea 1949 — built by Devonport, laid down 21 August 1933, launched 11 April 1934, completed 22 November 1934, sold into mercantile service 1946 — built by Devonport, laid down 25 September 1933, launched 29 May 1934, completed 24 January 1935, hulked as mercantile headquarters ship 1947. This ship is still in existence and is permanently moored on the Thames Embankment in London. — built by Devonport, laid down 11 June 1934, launched 16 January 1935, completed 20 September 1935, sold for scrapping 1948 — built by Chatham Royal Dockyard
Chatham Dockyard
Chatham Dockyard, located on the River Medway and of which two-thirds is in Gillingham and one third in Chatham, Kent, England, came into existence at the time when, following the Reformation, relations with the Catholic countries of Europe had worsened, leading to a requirement for additional...
, laid down 30 April 1934, launched 5 February 1935, completed 20 August 1935, sold for scrapping 1948
Second group
— built by Devonport Royal Dockyard, laid down 12 June 1935, launched 22 January 1936, completed 17 September 1936, sold for scrapping 1949 — built by Devonport Royal Dockyard, laid down 14 August 1935, launched 24 March 1936, completed 19 November 1936, sold for scrapping 1959Royal Australian Navy
— built by Cockatoo Island Dockyard, SydneySydney
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, laid down 24 May 1934, launched 28 March 1935, completed 19 December 1935, sunk by Japanese cruisers and off Java
Java
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4 March 1942 — built by Cockatoo, laid down 1 May 1935, launched 28 March 1936, completed 10 December 1936, sold for scrapping 1965 — built by Cockatoo, laid down 9 November 1938, launched 18 June 1939, completed 8 April 1940, torpedoed by German
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U-boat
U-boat
U-boat is the anglicized version of the German word U-Boot , itself an abbreviation of Unterseeboot , and refers to military submarines operated by Germany, particularly in World War I and World War II...
U559
Unterseeboot 559
German submarine U-559 was a Type VIIC U-boat built for the German Kriegsmarine for service during World War II.Built in 1941 at the Blohm & Voss shipyards in Hamburg, she was most famous for an incident during her sinking in the Mediterranean Sea in 1942, in which British sailors seized...
off Tobruk
Tobruk
Tobruk or Tubruq is a city, seaport, and peninsula on Libya's eastern Mediterranean coast, near the border with Egypt. It is the capital of the Butnan District and has a population of 120,000 ....
27 November 1941 — built by Cockatoo, laid down 10 May 1939, launched 10 February 1940, completed 21 August 1940, sold for scrapping 1966
Royal Indian Navy
- Indus — built by R. & W. Hawthorn Leslie & CompanyHawthorn Leslie and CompanyR. & W. Hawthorn Leslie and Company, Limited, usually referred to as Hawthorn Leslie, was a shipbuilding and locomotive manufacturer. The Company was founded on Tyneside in 1886 and ceased building ships in 1982.-History:...
, HebburnHebburnHebburn is a small town situated on the south bank of the River Tyne in North East England, sandwiched between the towns of Jarrow and Bill Quay...
, laid down 8 December 1933, launched 24 August 1934, completed 15 March 1935, bombed by Japanese aircraft off Akyab 6 April 1942