HMS Isis (D87)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article does not cite any references or sources. (April 2008) Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed. |
 |
|
| Career (UK) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | HMS Isis |
| Builder: | Yarrow Shipbuilders |
| Laid down: | 6 February 1936 |
| Launched: | 12 November 1936 |
| Commissioned: | 2 June 1937 |
| Fate: | Sunk by a mine off Normandy 20 July 1944 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | I class destroyer |
| Service record | |
| Operations | Battle of Greece (1941) |
| Victories | Sank U-562 (1943) |
HMS Isis (pennant number D87, later I87) was an I-class destroyer laid down by the Yarrow and Company, at Scotstoun in Glasgow on 6 February 1936, launched on 12 November 1936 and commissioned on 2 June 1937.
Isis was involved in the evacuation of Greece in April 1941, and attacked and sank the enemy German submarine U-562 while in company with the frigate HMS Hursley and a Wellington aircraft of the Royal Air Force in the Mediterranean north-east of Bengazi on 19 February 1943.
The ship was hit in 1941 off Beirut, Lebanon after the Battle of Crete. The ship pursued two French destroyers which escaped. The ship was then hit by a Ju-88 aircraft, and severely damaged. The ship began to be towed by the HMS Hero to Haifa, Palestine. The tow rope snapped, yet the engines were started and successfully arrived at Haifa.
Isis struck a mine or was hit by a German Neger human torpedo and sank off the Normandy beaches on 20 July 1944.
|
|||||||||||
