HMS Ivanhoe (D16)
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| Career (UK) |  |
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| Name: | HMS Ivanhoe |
| Builder: | Yarrow Shipbuilders Limited, Scotstoun, Glasgow |
| Laid down: | 6 February 1936 |
| Launched: | 11 February 1937 |
| Commissioned: | 24 August 1937 |
| Fate: | Mined and sank, North Sea, 1 September 1940 |
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| Class and type: | I class destroyer |
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| Victories | Sank U-45 (1939) |
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Ivanhoe.
For other uses, see Ivanhoe (disambiguation).
HMS Ivanhoe (D16) was an I-class destroyer that served with the Royal Navy during World War II.
Ivanhoe attacked and sank the enemy German submarine U-45 south-west of Ireland on 14 October 1939 in company with the destroyers HMS Intrepid and HMS Inglefield.
Ivanhoe struck a mine as she operated on a minelaying mission off the Dutch coast, and sank in the North Sea off the Frisian Islands in the Netherlands on 1 September 1940.
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