Name HMS Tenacious Laid down 3 December 1941 Construction started 3 December 1941 | Ordered March 1941 Commissioned 30 October 1943 Launched 24 March 1943 | |
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Renamed Ordered as HMS Tempest, renamed before being launched Identification Pennant number R45 (later F44) | ||
HMS Tenacious was a T-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that saw service during the Second World War. She was built by Cammell Laird, of Birkenhead and launched on 24 March 1943.
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Postwar service
Between 1946 and 1949 Tenacious was held in reserve at Devonport. On 23 January 1949 she arrived in Mersey for a refit and in November of that year was commissioned as a target ship for the 3rd Submarine Flotilla at Rothesay.
Between January 1951 and 1952 she was converted at Rosyth to a Type 16 fast anti-submarine frigate, with the new pennant number F44. On 8 May 1952, she ran aground in the River Foyle in Northern Ireland.In 1953 she took part in the Fleet Review to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
In 1954 Tenacious was placed in reserve at Rosyth, then in 1956 into reserve at Barrow. In September 1963 she was towed to Plymouth. Tenacious was subsequently sold for scrapping in 1965 and arrived at Troon for breaking up on 29 June in that year.
In popular culture
A book that described the ship's actions in the Second World War, H.M.S. Tenacious: Her Story was printed by Richard Clay and Company and contained a poem about the ship, The Roger Forty-Five, and listed the crew who served on her between August 1943 and April 1946.