| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Destroyer |
| Class | Shakespeare |
| Pennant | D 84 / I 84 |
| Built by | Thornycroft (Southampton, U.K.) |
| Ordered | Apr 1918 |
| Laid down | Oct 1918 |
| Launched | 23 Apr 1920 |
| Commissioned | 15 Apr 1925 |
| End service | |
| History | Completed by Portsmouth Dockyard (Portsmouth, U.K.) HMS Keppel is not listed as Active unit as in the July 1945 Navy List Sold to be broken up for scrap in July 1945. |
Commands listed for HMS Keppel (D 84 / I 84)
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| Commander | From | To | |
| 1 | Capt. Francis Stephen Walter de Winton, RN | 31 May 1939 | 1 Dec 1939 |
| 2 | Lt.Cdr. (emergency) Edward Gavin Heywood-Lonsdale, RN | 1 Dec 1939 | 2 Aug 1940 |
| 3 | Capt. Donald Keppel Bain, RN | 2 Aug 1940 | 1 Oct 1940 |
| 4 | Lt. Ronald John Hanson, RN | 1 Oct 1940 | 1 Feb 1941 |
| 5 | Cdr. Alan MacGregor Sheffield, RN | Feb 1941 | 10 Sep 1941 |
| 6 | Cdr. John Egerton Broome, RN | 10 Sep 1941 | late 1942 |
| 7 | Lt. Peter Graham Lachlan, RN | 31 Dec 1942 | 25 Jan 1943 |
| 8 | Lt.Cdr. Robert Basil Stewart Tennant, RN | 25 Jan 1943 | 19 Apr 1943 |
| 9 | Cdr. Martin James Evans, OBE, RN | 19 Apr 1943 | 24 Jul 1943 |
| 10 | Lt.Cdr. (retired) John Byron, DSC, RNR | 24 Jul 1943 | 2 Dec 1943 |
| 11 | Cdr. Ismay James Tyson, RD, RNR | 2 Dec 1943 | mid 1945 |
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Noteable events involving Keppel include:
24 Oct 1939
HMS Keppel (Capt. F.S.W. De Winton, RN) picks up 32 survivors from the British merchant Tafna that was torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat U-37 100 miles west-southwest of Gibraltar in position 35°44'N, 07°23'W. (see map)
13 Jul 1941
HMS Keppel (Cdr. A.M. Sheffield, RN) picks up 7 survivors in position 60°38'N, 23°15'W from the Norwegian merchant Vigrid that was torpedoed and sunk on 24 June 1941 about 400 nautical miles south-east of Cape Farewell in position 54°30'N, 41°30'W by German U-boat U-371. (see map)
27 Mar 1942
On 27 March 1942 German U-boat U-587 was sunk in position 47°21'N, 21°39'W by depth charges by the British escort destroyers HMS Grove (Lt.Cdr. J.W. Rylands, RN) and HMS Aldenham (Lt. H.A. Stuart-Menteth, RN) and the British destroyers HMS Volunteer (Lt. A.S. Pomeroy, RN) and HMS Leamington (Lt.Cdr. H.G. Bowerman, RN) of the 2nd Escort Group, escorting the troop convoy WS-17. The U-boat was found after a HF/DF fix by the British destroyer HMS Keppel (Cdr. J.E. Broome, RN). (see map)
22 Sep 1943
German U-boat U-229 was sunk in the North Atlantic south-east of Cape Farewell, Greenland, in position 54°36'N, 36°25'W, by depth charges, gunfire and ramming from the British destroyer HMS Keppel (Lt.Cdr. J. Byron, DSC, RNR). HMS Keppel then struggled to Newfoundland for repairs to her bows. (see map)
24 Feb 1944
German U-boat U-713 was sunk in the Arctic north-west of Narvik, Norway, in position 69°27'N, 04°53'E, by depth charges from the British destroyer HMS Keppel (Cdr. I.J. Tyson, DSC, RNR). (see map)
2 Apr 1944
German U-boat U-360 was sunk in the Norwegian Sea south-west of Bear Island, in position 72°28'N, 13°04'E, by British destroyer HMS Keppel (Cdr. I.J. Tyson, DSC, RNR). (see map)
24 Aug 1944
German U-boat U-354 was sunk in the Barents Sea north-east of North Cape, in position 72°49'N, 30°41'E, by depth charges from the British sloops HMS Mermaid (Lt.Cdr. J.P. Mosse, RN) and HMS Peacock (Lt.Cdr. R.B. Stannard, VC, DSO, RD, RNR), the British frigate HMS Loch Dunvegan (Cdr. E. Wheeler, RD, RNR) and the British destroyer HMS Keppel (Cdr. I.J. Tyson, DSO, DSC, RD, RNR). (see map)
2 Sep 1944
German U-boat U-394 was sunk in the Norwegian Sea some nautical miles south-east of Jan Mayen island, Norway, in position 69°47'N, 04°10'E, by rockets and depth charges from a Swordfish aircraft (Sqdn. 825) from the British escort carrier HMS Vindex (Capt. H.T.T. Bayliss, RN), and the British destroyers HMS Keppel (Cdr. I.J. Tyson, DSO, DSC, RNR) and HMS Whitehall (Lt.Cdr. P.J. Cowell, DSC, RN) and the British sloops HMS Mermaid (Lt.Cdr. J.P. Mosse, RN) and HMS Peacock (Lt.Cdr. R.B. Stannard, VC, DSO, RNR). (see map)
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