| HMS Isis (D87) | |
|---|---|
| Career (UK) |  |
| Name: | HMS Isis |
| Builder: | Yarrow Shipbuilders |
| Laid down: | 6 February 1936 |
| Launched: | 12 November 1936 |
| Commissioned: | 2 June 1937 |
| Identification: | Pennant number: D87, I87 |
| Fate: | Sunk by a mine off Normandy, 20 July 1944 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class & type: | I-class destroyer |
| Displacement: |
1,370 long tons (1,390 t) (standard) 1,888 long tons (1,918 t) (deep load) |
| Length: | 323 ft (98.5 m) |
| Beam: | 33 ft (10.1 m) |
| Draught: | 12 ft 5 in (3.8 m) |
| Installed power: | 34,000 shp (25,000 kW) |
| Propulsion: |
2 shafts, Parsons geared steam turbines 3 Admiralty 3-drum water-tube boilers |
| Speed: | 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph) |
| Range: | 5,530 nmi (10,240 km; 6,360 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement: | 145 |
| Sensors and processing systems: | ASDIC |
| Armament: |
4 × 1 - 4.7-inch (120 mm) guns 2 × 4 - 0.5-inch (12.7 mm) machine guns 2 × 5 - 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes 20 × depth charges, 1 rail and 2 throwers |
| Service record | |
|---|---|
| Operations: | Battle of Greece (1941) |
| Victories: | Sank U-562 (1943) |
HMS Isis was an I-class destroyer laid down by the Yarrow and Company, at Scotstoun in Glasgow on 6 February 1936, launched on 12 November 1936 and commissioned on 2 June 1937.
World War II[]
Isis was involved in the evacuation of Greece in April 1941. On 19 February 1943, she attacked and sank the enemy German submarine U-562 — while in company with the frigate Hursley and a Vickers Wellington medium bomber of the Royal Air Force — in the Mediterranean, north-east of Benghazi. Isis was hit in 1941 off Beirut, Lebanon after the Battle of Crete. She pursued two French destroyers which escaped. She was then attacked by a Ju-88 aircraft, and severely damaged. She was taken under tow by Hero to Haifa, Palestine. The tow rope snapped, yet the engines were started and she successfully arrived at Haifa.
Isis struck a mine and sank off the Normandy beaches on 20 July 1944.[1][2]
Notes[]
References[]
- English, John (1993). Amazon to Ivanhoe:British Standard Destroyers of the 1930s. Kendal, England: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-64-9.
- Whitley, M. J. (1988). Destroyers of World War 2. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-326-1.
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