| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Destroyer |
| Class | R |
| Pennant | H 41 |
| Built by | John Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd. (Clydebank, Scotland) |
| Ordered | May 1940 |
| Laid down | 19 Jun 1941 |
| Launched | 2 May 1942 |
| Commissioned | 1 Oct 1942 |
| End service | |
| Loss position | |
| History | Transferred to India in 1949 being renamed Ranjit. |
Commands listed for HMS Redoubt (H 41)
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| Commander | From | To | |
| 1 | Lt.Cdr. Nigel Edward Godfrey Roper, DSO, RN | Aug 1942 | 24 Sep 1944 |
| 2 | Lt.Cdr. Francis Wimburn Melvill Carter, DSC, RN | 24 Sep 1944 | late 1945 |
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Noteable events involving Redoubt include:
1 Dec 1942
The Italian blockade breaker Cortellazzo had departed Bordeaux bound for Japan on 29 November 1942. The next day the ship was spotted by a Sunderland flying boat. The British submarines HMS Graph (Lt. P.B. Marriot, RN), HMS Clyde (Lt. R.S. Brookes, DSC, RN), and HMS Sealion (Lt. D. Lambert, DSC, RN), were ordered to intercept but failed to do so.
The British destroyer HMS Redoubt (Lt.Cdr. N.E.G. Ropner, DSO, RN) and the Australian destroyer HMAS Quickmatch (Lt.Cdr. R. Rhoades, DSC, RAN) were detached from convoy KMF-4 to intercept the Italian ship. They did so on 1 December and after the Italians had abandoned ship she was sunk by torpedo by HMS Redoubt about 470 nautical miles west of Cape Finisterre, Spain in position 44º00'N, 20º00'W. (see map)
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