HMS Ithuriel was an I-class

I class destroyer

The I class was a class of eight destroyers plus a flotilla leader of the British Royal Navy ordered under the 1935 naval programme, laid down in 1936 and completed in 1937 and 1938...

 destroyer

Destroyer

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 laid down as Gayret for the Turkish Navy

Turkish Navy

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 by Vickers Armstrong

Vickers Armstrong

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 Naval Construction Works at Barrow-in-Furness

Barrow-in-Furness

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 on 24 May 1939, but taken over by the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 on the outbreak of the Second World War whilst still under construction.

Launched on 15 December 1940 and commissioned on 3 March 1942. In World War II

World War II

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, she took part in Operation Harpoon

Operation Harpoon (1942)

Not to be confused with Operation Harpoon Operation Harpoon was one of two simultaneous Allied convoys sent to supply Malta in the Axis-dominated Mediterranean Sea in mid-June 1942, during the Second World War. One convoy, Operation Vigorous, left Alexandria. The other, Operation Harpoon, travelled...

 and Operation Pedestal

Operation Pedestal

Operation Pedestal was a British operation to get desperately needed supplies to the island of Malta in August 1942, during the Second World War. Malta was the base from which surface ships, submarines and aircraft attacked Axis convoys carrying essential supplies to the Italian and German armies...

, the escorting of convoys to Malta

Malta Convoys

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 in June and August 1942.

Ithuriel was attacked by German

Germany

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 aircraft at Bone in Algeria

Algeria

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on 28 November 1942 and damaged beyond repair.