HMS Dewent

HMS Derwent (L83)

Navy:	Royal Navy
Type:	Escort destroyer
Class:	Hunt (Type III)
Pennant:	L 83
Built by:	Vickers Armstrong (Barrow)
Laid down:	29 Dec, 1940
Launched:	22 Aug, 1941
Commissioned:	24 Apr, 1942
Complement:	168
End service:	19 March 1943 Heavily damaged by a torpedo from a German Ju.88 aircraft in Tripoli harbour, Libya. She was beached and eventually returned to England but was never repaired or returned to service. Scrapped in November 1946.