Name HMS Cleveland Yard number Admiralty Job No.1835 Completed 18 September 1940 Construction started 7 July 1939 Length 85 m | Ordered 21 March 1939 Laid down 7 July 1939 Identification pennant number L46 Launched 24 April 1940 Draft 3.27 m | |
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HMS Cleveland (L46) was a Type I Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy built by Yarrow Shipbuilders of Scotstoun, and launched on 24 April 1940. She was adopted by the civil community of Middlesbrough then in the North Riding of Yorkshire, as part of the Warship Week campaign in 1942.
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Service history
On commissioning in 1940 she completed work ups for service in home waters, both the North Sea and the English Channel, which continued throughout 1941 and 1942. During April 1943, she was nominated for service in the Mediterranean. During that year she provided cover for the Allied landings in Italy on Sicily (Operation Husky) and at Salerno (Operation Avalanche). During 1944 she was again deployed in the Mediterranean and in the Aegean Sea.
On 29 September 1945, Cleveland steamed from Gibraltar to Devonport and was placed in reserve. She was sold for scrapping and was wrecked at Llangennith, Glamorgan, Wales, on the Gower Peninsula near Swansea on 28 June 1957 while under tow to Llanelli, Wales, for scrapping.en route to the breakers yard. The wreck was stripped and blown up on 14 December 1959.