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HMS Exmoor (ii) (L 08)

Escort destroyer of the Hunt (Type II) class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeEscort destroyer
ClassHunt (Type II) 
PennantL 08 
Built bySwan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd. (Wallsend-on-Tyne, U.K.): Wallsend 
Ordered 
Laid down7 Jun, 1940 
Launched12 Mar, 1941 
Commissioned18 Oct, 1941 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Renamed HMS Exmoor (ii) before being commissioned.

Sold to the Royal Danish Navy in July 1952 being renamed Valdemar Sejr.
Scrapped in 1966 at Ystad, Sweden.

Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. Lawrence St George Rich, RN
June 1941 – February 1943

Lt. D.T. McBarnett, DSC, RN
February 1943 – 5 November 1943

Cdr. John Jefferis, RN
5 November 1943 – ca. early 1944

Lt. D.D. Howsen, RN
ca. early 1944 – January 1945

Cdr. John Holmes, DSC, RN
January 1945 – 9 July 1945

Cdr. Bertram Wilfrid Taylor, DSC, RN
9 July 1945 - still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List 

Former nameHMS Burton

Noteable events involving Exmoor (ii) include:

17 Dec, 1941
The German submarine U-131 was sunk north-east of Madeira, Portugal, in position 34º12'N, 13º35'W, by depth charges and gunfire from the British escort destroyers HMS Exmoor (Lt.Cdr. L.StG. Rich, RN) and HMS Blankney(Lt.Cdr. P.F. Powlett, DSC, RN), the British destroyer HMS Stanley (Lt.Cdr. D.B. Shaw, OBE, RN), the British corvette HMS Pentstemon (Lt.Cdr. J. Byron, RNR (retired)) and the British sloop HMS Stork (Cdr. F.J. Walker, RN), and by depth charges from a Martlet aircraft (Sqdn. 802) of the British escort carrier HMS Audacity (Cdr. D.W. Mackendrick, RN). (see map)

27 Mar, 1943
HMS Exmoor picks up 13 survivors from the British merchant City of Guildford that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-593 off Derna in position 33º00'N, 22º50'E.

10 Mar, 1944
The German submarine U-450 was sunk in the western Mediterranean south of Ostia, in position 41º11'N, 12º27'E, by depth charges from the British escort destroyers HMS Blankney, HMS Blencathra, HMS Brecon, HMS Exmoor and the US destroyer USS Madison. (see map)


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