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HMS Loyal (G 15)

Destroyer of the L class


Nice stern view of HMS Loyal

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassL 
PennantG 15 
Built byScotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. (Greenock, Scotland) 
Ordered31 Mar, 1938 
Laid down23 Nov, 1938 
Launched8 Oct, 1941 
Commissioned31 Oct, 1942 
End service12 Oct, 1944 
Loss position
 
HistoryHeavily damaged by a mine in the Thyrhenian Sea off Italy, declared a constructive total loss.
Sold to be broken up for scrap on 5 August 1948.

Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. Hugo Edward Forbes Tweedie, RN
22 September 1942 – August 1944
DSC awarded on ???

Cdr. Godfrey Ransome, DSC, RN
August 1944 - ???

After the mine damage in November 1944 HMS Loyal was paid off 


Noteable events involving Loyal include:

18 Jan, 1943
The British destroyers HMS Lightning (Cdr. H.G. Walters, RN) and HMS Loyal (Lt.Cdr. H.E.F. Tweedie, RN) sink the German (former Norwegian) Favor (1323 GRT) south of Sardinia, Italy in position 38º40'N, 09º32'E. (see map)

7 May, 1943
The German auxiliary minesweeper M 6616/Alba Eder (21 GRT) and the Italian tug Porto Cesareo (230 GRT) were sunk off Cape Bon, Tunisia by gunfire from the British destroyers HMS Laforey (Capt. R.M.J. Hutton, DSO, RN), HMS Loyal (Lt.Cdr. H.E.F. Tweedie, RN), HMS Tartar (Cdr. St.J.R.J. Tyrwhitt, RN) and HMS Nubian (Cdr. D.E. Holland-Martin, DSC, RN).


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