HMS Tynedale (L96)

Tynedale in July 1942
History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Tynedale
Ordered:	11 April 1939
Builder:	Alexander Stephen and Sons
Laid down:	27 July 1939
Launched:	5 June 1940
Honours and awards:	St. Nazaire 1942 English Channel 1942-43 Sicily 1943
Fate:	Sunk on 12 December 1943
Badge:	On a Field Red, in front of two arrows in saltire white a hunting horn erect gold.
General characteristics
Class and type:	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:	Two x Admiralty 3 drum boilers Two shaft Parsons geared turbines 19,000 shp
Speed:	27½ kn (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-inch (102 mm) Mark XVI guns on twin mounts Mk. XIX 4 × QF 2-pounder (40 mm) Mk. VIII AA guns on quad mount MK.VII 2 × 20 mm Oerlikon AA guns on single mounts P Mk. III 40 depth charges, 2 throwers, 1 rack

HMS Tynedale was a Hunt-class destroyer of the first subgroup which served during the Second World War. She was sunk by the U-593 on 12 December 1943.

Tynedale was ordered from Alexander Stephen and Sons on 11 April 1939 as part of the 1939 Program and laid down on 27 July 1939 under yard number J1471. She was launched on 5 June 1940 and commissioned on 2 December 1940. She was adopted by the civil community of Hexham Northumberland following a Warship Week savings campaign in February 1942.

Tynedale was mostly employed on convoy and escort duties initially as part of the First Destroyer Flotilla based at Portsmouth. On 11 March 1941 she sustained damage which put her out of action for 9 days from an of Portsmouth's docks by the Luftwaffe. On 15 December, she was transferred to the 15th Flotilla based at Plymouth.

Tynedale took part in the St. Nazaire Raid on 27 March 1942 as one of the escorts for the destroyer Campbeltown and small craft which were to enter the harbour. South west of Ushant she sighted the U-boat U-593 and attacked her initially with depth charges and then when the submarine was forced to the surface with a deck gun. However the submarine managed to dive again and escaped. It would be the same submarine U-593 which would sink Tynedale the following year. When rendezvousing with the surviving small craft from the raid outside the harbour Tynedale and another destroyer, Atherstone engaged the five German torpedo boats of the 5th Flotilla.

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