HMS Bedouin (F67)
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HMS Bedouin (pennant number L67, later F67) was a Tribal-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service in World War II. She was launched on 21 December 1937 by William Denny and Brothers.
She served in the Second Battle of Narvik, and in the Battle of Mid-June, where she was sunk by the combined action of Italian cruisers Montecuccoli and Eugenio di Savoia and SM.79 torpedo bombers on June 15, 1942. Twenty-eight men from her complement were killed in action, 213 were taken as prisoners of war by the Italian Navy.
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- Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.
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