HMS Tenedos was an Admiralty 'S' class destroyer

S class destroyer (1916)

The S class were a class of 67 destroyers built from 1917 for the Royal Navy. The design was based on the Admiralty modified R class and all ships had names beginning with S or T....

. Commissioned in 1919 she served throughout the period between the two World Wars.

Laid down on the 6 December 1917, she was constructed by Hawthorn Leslie of Tyne, and was completed in 1918.

On December 10, 1941, she became part of the Force Z

Force Z

Force Z was an Allied naval detachment consisting of the battleship , the battlecruiser , and four destroyers, , , , and . Initially an aircraft carrier HMS Indomitable was included, but she ran aground in the Caribbean, and was not replaced by HMS Hermes which was regarded as too slow.A renamed...

 British Eastern Fleet

British Eastern Fleet

The British Eastern Fleet was a fleet of the Royal Navy which existed from 1941 to 1971...

 task force, tasked to disrupt invading Japanese convoys. She was one of the escorts of the capital ships assigned to the mission, and . During the pre-emptive attack against the Japanese convoy, both the Prince of Wales and Repulse were overwhelmed and sunk by Japanese land-based bomber aircraft

Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse

The sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse was a Second World War naval engagement that took place north of Singapore, off the east coast of Malaya, near Kuantan, Pahang where the British Royal Navy battleship HMS Prince of Wales and battlecruiser HMS Repulse were sunk by land-based bombers and...

. Tenedos supported in the rescue of the survivors of both ships, and she returned to

She was sunk at Colombo

Colombo

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 Harbour (Ceylon - Now Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

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) by Japanese carrier borne aircraft on 5 April 1942 during the Indian Ocean air raid of 1942, which also saw the losses of the carrier , , among other Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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Eastern Fleet vessels attacked and sunk there.