Name HMS Tuscan Laid down 6 September 1941 Construction started 6 September 1941 Builder Swan Hunter | Ordered 14 March 1941 Commissioned 11 March 1943 Launched 28 May 1942 | |
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Reclassified Converted to Type 16 frigate 1952 Identification pennant number R56/F156 | ||
HMS Tuscan was a T-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that served during the Second World War and was scrapped in 1966.
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Second World War service
On 7 October 1944 she and the destroyer Termagant sank the German torpedo boat TA 37.
Postwar service
Between 1946 and 1952 Tuscan was held as part of the reserve fleet in Portsmouth. In 1949 and 1950 she had a refit at Cammell Laird in Birkenhead. Between May 1952 and September 1953 she was converted into a Type 16 fast anti-submarine frigate by Mount Stuart Dry Docks, Cardiff and was allocated the new pennant number F156.
In 1953 she was held as part of the Devonport Reserve, and in 1954 the Portsmouth Reserve. In 1960 she was part of the Chatham reserve and between 1961 and 1963 was part of the Portsmouth Operational Reserve. She was eventually sold to McLellan for scrap and arrived at Bo'ness for breaking up on 26 March 1966.