HMS Escort (H66)
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| Navy: | Royal Navy |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Class: | E |
| Pennant: | H 66 |
| Built by: | Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. (Greenock, Scotland) |
| Laid down: | 30 Mar, 1933 |
| Launched: | 29 Mar, 1934 |
| Commissioned: | 6 Nov, 1934 |
| Complement: | 145 |
| Lost: | 11 Jul, 1940 torpedoed in the forward boiler room by the Italian submarine Guglielmo Marconi. She foundered east of Gibraltar while under tow on the 11th. |
| History: |
25 Feb, 1940 The German submarine U-63 tried to attack convoy HN-14, in doing so she was sighted by the British submarine HMS Narwhal. The escorting destoyers HMS Escort, HMS Inglefield and HMS Imogen were warned. They located, attacked and sank U-63 with depth charges south east of the Shetland Islands. |
