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HMS Tumult (R 11)

Destroyer of the T class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassT 
PennantR 11 
Built byJohn Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd. (Clydebank, Scotland) 
Ordered13 Mar, 1941 
Laid down16 Nov, 1941 
Launched9 Nov, 1942 
Commissioned2 Apr, 1943 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryScrapped at Dalmuir in October 1965.

Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. Norman Lanyon, RN
23 February 1943 - 15 November 1944
DSC awarded on 27 June 1944
Bar to DSC awarded on 7 November 1944

Lt.Cdr. Arthur Shubrook Pomeroy, DSC, RN
15 November 1944 - still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List 


Noteable events involving Tumult include:

29 Nov, 1943
The German submarine U-86 was sunk east of the Azores, in position 40º52'N, 18º54'W, by depth charges from the British destroyers HMS Tumult (Lt.Cdr. N. Lanyon, RN) and HMS Rocket (Lt.Cdr. H.B. Ackworth, OBE, RN). (see map)

30 Mar, 1944
The German submarine U-223 was sunk in the Mediterranean north of Palermo, in position 38º48'N, 14º10'E, by depth charges from the British destroyers HMS Laforey (Capt. H.T. Armstrong, DSO, DSC and Bar, RN) and HMS Tumult (Lt.Cdr. N. Lanyon, RN) and the British escort destroyers HMS Hambledon (Lt. L.G. Toone, RN) and HMS Blencathra (Lt.Cdr. E.G. Warren, RN). (see map)


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