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Ibrahim el Awal

HMS Mendip
HMSMendip.jpg
History
United Kingdom
Ordered: 11 April 1939
Builder: Swan Hunter, Wallsend
Laid down: 10 August 1939
Launched: 9 April January 1940
Commissioned: 12 October 1940
Out of service: 20 May 1946
Recommissioned: June 1949 following repossession from ROC
Identification: L60
Honours and
awards:
Fate: sold to Egypt
Badge: On a field Red, on a White roundel, a bugle horn stringed Black within the strings a blue rose.
ROCN Service FlagChina
Name: Lin Fu
Commissioned: 21 January 1948
Out of service: 29 May 1949
Fate: returned to RN control after the Nationalist Government fell.
Egypt
Name: Mohammed Ali
Acquired: 9 November 1949
Renamed: Ibrahim el Awal
Fate: captured by Israel on 31 October 1956 and commissioned as INS Haifa (K-38)
Israel
Name: INS Haifa
Homeport: Haifa
Identification: K-38
Captured: 31 October 1956
Fate: Scrapped in 1972
General characteristics
Class and type: Type I Hunt-class destroyer
Displacement:
  • 1,000 t standard
  • 1,340 t full load
Length: 280 ft (85 m)
Beam: 29 ft (8.8 m)
Draught: 10 ft 9 in (3.28 m)
Propulsion:
Speed: 27½ kts (26 knots full)
Range: 3,500 nmi (6,480 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h) / 1,000 nmi (2,000 km) at 26 knots (48 km/h)
Complement: 146
Armament:
  • 4 × QF 4 in Mark XVI on twin mounts Mk. XIX
  • 4 × QF 2 pdr Mk. VIII on quad mount MK.VII
  • 2 × 20 mm Oerlikons on single mounts P Mk. III
  • 40 depth charges, 2 throwers, 1 rack

HMS Mendip (L60) was a Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was a member of the first subgroup of the class. The ship is notable for seeing service in the navies of three other nations after her use by the Royal Navy. She saw service in the Second World War and later as an Egyptian Navy ship in the Suez Crisis. She was captured in battle on 31 October 1956 by the Israeli Navy and re-commissioned as INS Haifa (K-38).

Mendip was ordered under the 1939 Naval Building Programme from Swan Hunter at Wallsend on 17 April 1939 She was laid down as Job No. J4111 on 10 August 1939 and launched on 9 April 1940. She was the first Royal Navy ship to carry the name of the Fox-Hunt in Somerset. Construction of the ship was completed on 16 October 1941, and following a successful Warship Week National Savings campaign in March 1942 she was adopted by the civil community of Shepton Mallet, Somerset.

On commissioning Mendip was assigned to the Home Fleet's base at Scapa Flow for working-up in October, but sustained damage when one of her own depth charges exploded during work up exercises. She was repaired and resumed work up on 18 February 1941. On 30 March she was assigned to the 21st Destroyer Flotilla at Sheerness where she spent the next three years convoy escort and patrol duties in the North Sea and English Channel. During this time Mendip protected coastal traffic against attack by German aircraft and E-boats, rescued survivors, took part in minelaying and offensive operations against enemy installations. In September 1942 she became senior ship in 21 Flotilla with the appointment of Captain CR Parry, 21 Flotilla's Captain (D), as her commander.


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