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HMS Troubridge (R 00)

Destroyer of the T class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassT 
PennantR 00 
Built byJohn Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd. (Clydebank, Scotland) 
Ordered13 Mar, 1941 
Laid down10 Nov, 1941 
Launched23 Sep, 1942 
Commissioned8 Mar, 1943 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryReconstructed as Type 15 frigate during 1955-1957.

Sold to be broken up for scrap on 27 February 1970.
Scrapped at Newport in May 1970.

Commanding Officers:
Capt. Charles Leslie Firth, MVO, RN
May 1943 – 30 September 1944

Capt. Geoffrey Frederic Burghard, RN
30 September 1944 - still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List 


Noteable events involving Troubridge include:

19 Sep, 1944
The German submarine U-407 was sunk in the Mediterranean south of Milos, in position 36º27'N, 24º33'E, by depth charges from the British destroyers HMS Troubridge and HMS Terpsichore and the Polish destroyer ORP Garland. (see map)


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