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HMS Eridge (L68)

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Name
  
HMS Eridge

Commissioned
  
28 February 1941

Class and type
  
Hunt-class destroyer

Launched
  
20 August 1940

Draft
  
2.51 m

Builder
  
Swan Hunter

Laid down
  
21 November 1939

Fate
  
Sold for scrap, 1946

Construction started
  
21 November 1939

Length
  
85 m

Beam
  
9.6 m

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Reclassified
  
Base ship on 29 August 1942

HMS Eridge was a Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1940 and served during the Second World War.

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Service history

On 29 May 1942, Eridge assisted the destroyers Hero and Hurworth in sinking the German submarine U-568. At 04:15 on 29 August 1942, she began shelling Axis positions off El Daba, Egypt, at 31°7′N 28°26′E, together with the destroyers Croome and Hursley. At 05:00, she was permanently disabled by a 450mm torpedo fired by the Italian motor torpedo boat MTSM-228. The attack caused five fatalities on board Eridge.

She was towed to Alexandria by the destroyer Aldenham, where the destroyer was used as a base ship for the rest of the war and sold for scrapping in October 1946.

Publications

  • Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475. 
  • English, John (1987). The Hunts: a history of the design, development and careers of the 86 destroyers of this class built for the Royal and Allied Navies during World War II. England: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-44-4.

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