Name HMS Tanatside Laid down 23 June 1941 Identification pennant number L69 Length 85 m Builder Yarrow Shipbuilders | Ordered 23 August 1940 Commissioned August 1942 Launched 30 April 1942 Draft 3.51 m | |
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Out of service Loaned to the Royal Hellenic Navy in 1946 | ||
HMS Tanatside was a Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was launched at Yarrow in April 1942. Ships of this class were designed as cheap, easily built vessels for convoy escort and antisubmarine duties. She was named like her sisters after a fox hunt, in her case one in North Wales. War bonds were issued to finance the building of warships. Tanatside was funded by people from Tregaron, Aberaeron, New Quay, Aberystwyth and Teifiside, in a nod to the ship's name. Plaques were presented to each of these townships. During a Warship Week held between 14 and 21 March 1942 the civil community of the Welsh county of Cardiganshire adopted the ship.
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Service History
Tanatside took part in Operation Tunnel anti shipping forays and was present at Omaha Beach, where she approached the beach to assist in the destruction of German defences.
In December 1945 Tanatside was reduced to care and maintenance at Malta. In 1946 she was transferred to the Greek Navy and renamed Adrias, after a sister-ship Adrias, the former HMS Border, which was seriously damaged by mines in October 1943 and which was not repaired. She was removed from the effective list in 1963 and scrapped in 1964.
She was used by Dean's Marine, a UK-based radio controlled model company, as the example type for a model of the Hunt-class destroyers.