 HMS Bedouin sinking after Italian naval and aerial attack |
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| Career (United Kingdom) |
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|---|---|
| Name: | HMS Bedouin |
| Builder: | William Denny, Dumbarton |
| Laid down: | January 1937 |
| Launched: | 21 December 1937 |
| Commissioned: | 15 March 1939 |
| Fate: | Sunk 15 June 1942 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 2,020 tons |
| Length: | 377 ft (115 m) |
| Beam: | 36 ft 6 in (11.13 m) |
| Draught: | 13 ft (4.0 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × 22,000 shp Pearson geared turbine engines |
| Speed: | 36 knots (67 km/h) |
| Complement: | 190 |
| Armament: | 8 × 4.7-inch guns in four turrets 4 × 2 pdr pompom 4 × 21-inch torpedo tubes 2 × depth charge catapults |
HMS Bedouin (pennant number L67, later F67) was a Tribal-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service in World War II. She was launched on 21 December 1937 by William Denny and Brothers.
She served in the Second Battle of Narvik, and in the Battle of Mid-June, where she was sunk by the combined action of Italian cruisers Montecuccoli and Eugenio di Savoia and SM.79 torpedo bombers on 15 June 1942. Twenty-eight men from her complement were killed in action, 213 were taken as prisoners of war by the Italian Navy.
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