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HMS Redoubt (H 41)

Destroyer of the R class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassR 
PennantH 41 
Built byJohn Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd. (Clydebank, Scotland) 
OrderedMay, 1940 
Laid down19 Jun, 1941 
Launched2 May, 1942 
Commissioned1 Oct, 1942 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryTransferred to India in 1949 being renamed Ranjit.

Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. Nigel Edward Godfrey Ropner, DSC, RN
August 1942 – 24 September 1944

Lt.Cdr. Francis Wimburn Melvill Carter, DSC, RN
24 September 1944 – still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List 


Noteable events involving Redoubt include:

1 Dec, 1942
The Italian blockade breaker Cortellazzo had departed Bordeaux bound for Japan on 29 November 1942. The next day the ship was spotted by a Sunderland flying boat. The British destroyer HMS Redoubt (Lt.Cdr. N.E.G. Ropner, DSO, RN) and the Australian destroyer HMAS Quickmatch (Lt.Cdr. R. Rhoades, DSC, RAN) were detached from convoy KMF-4 to intercept the Italian ship. They did so on 1 December and after the Italians had abandoned ship she was sunk by torpedo by HMS Redoubt about 470 nautical miles west of Cape Finisterre, Spain in position 44º00'N, 20º00'W. (see map)


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