HMS KIPLING G91

HMS KIPLING G91

Class……………………………K-class Destroyer

Builder……………………….. Yarrow & Co. Ltd., Scotstoun, Glasgow

Yard number……………….1706

Laid down..………………….26 Oct 1937

Launched….…………………19 Jan 1939

Completed.………………….22 Dec 1939

Propulsion.…………………..2 shafts : 2-shaft Parsons S.R. geared turbines, 2 Admiralty oil fired 3-drum watertube boilers

Speed..…………………………32 knots (full load)

Range…………………………..5500 / 1050 nm at 15 / 32 knots

Fate…………………………….11 May 1942 : HMS Kipling was bombed shortly after 2000 hours by German Ju 88 aircraft north-west of Mersa Matruth in the eastern Mediterranean. She sank almost immediately. Twenty-four of the crew were killed or missing. Two ratings died later of wounds sustained during the sinking of the ship.

 

Vessel allocated the following pennant numbers:

F91……………..Feb 1939 until 1940

G91…………….1940 until loss

 

IWM Caption : HMS KIPLING with her guns manned and ready for action.(1940)

© IWM A 1450

 

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