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HMS Oribi (G 66)

Destroyer of the O class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassO 
PennantG 66 
Built byFairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. (Govan, Scotland) 
Ordered3 Sep, 1939 
Laid down15 Jan, 1940 
Launched14 Jan, 1941 
Commissioned5 Jul, 1941 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryTransferred to Turkey in 1946 being renamed Gayret.

Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. John Edwin Home McBeath, DSO, RN
1 May 1941 – 23 February 1943
Promoted to Cdr. on 31 December 1941
DSC awarded on 6 January 1942

Lt.Cdr. John Charles Anthony Ingram, RN
23 February 1943 – 19 September 1944
DSC awarded on ???

Lt. D.M. Vaughan-Hughes, RN
19 September 1944 – 24 April 1945

Lt. Cdr. Robert Sydney Hopper, DSC, RN
24 April 1945 – still in command in July 1945 according to the Navy List

HMS Oribi is not listed in the October 1945 Navy List 

Former nameHMS Observer

Noteable events involving Oribi include:

6 May, 1943
The German submarine U-125 was sunk east of Newfoundland, in position 52º30'N, 45º20'W, by ramming by the British destroyer HMS Oribi (Lt.Cdr. J.C.A. Ingram, RN) and gunfire from the British corvette HMS Snowflake (Lt. H.G. Chesterman, RNR). (see map)


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