| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Escort destroyer |
| Class | Hunt (Type II) |
| Pennant | L 08 |
| Built by | Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd. (Wallsend-on-Tyne, U.K.): Wallsend |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | 7 Jun 1940 |
| Launched | 12 Mar 1941 |
| Commissioned | 18 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. Commanding Officers: Lt. Donald Terry McBarnett, DSC, RN Cdr. John Jefferis, RN Lt. Donald Douglas Howson, RN Cdr. John Holmes, DSC, RN Cdr. Bertram Wilfrid Taylor, DSC, RN |
| Former name | HMS Burton |
Commands listed for HMS Exmoor (ii) (L 08)
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| Commander | From | To | |
| 1 | Lt.Cdr. Lawrence St George Rich, RN | Jun 1941 | Feb 1943 |
| 2 | Lt. Donald Terry McBarnet, RN | Feb 1943 | 5 Nov 1943 |
| 3 | Cdr. John Jefferis, RN | 5 Nov 1943 | Early 1944 |
| 4 | Lt. Donald Douglas Howson, RN | Early 1944 | Jan 1945 |
| 5 | Cdr. John Holmes, RN | Jan 1945 | 9 Jul 1945 |
| 6 | Cdr. Bertram Wilfrid Taylor, DSC, RN | 9 Jul 1945 | Oct 1945 ? |
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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)