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HMS Relentless (H 85)

Destroyer of the R class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassR 
PennantH 85 
Built byJohn Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd. (Clydebank, Scotland) 
OrderedMay, 1940 
Laid down20 Jun, 1941 
Launched15 Jul, 1942 
Commissioned30 Nov, 1942 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryReconstructed as Type 15 frigate during 1949-1951.

Scrapped in 1971.

Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. Robert Augustus Fell, RN
19 October 1942 - 18 September 1944

Lt.Cdr. George Baillie Barstow, RN
18 September 1944 - still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List 


Noteable events involving Relentless include:

22 Sep, 1943
HMS Relentless (Lt.Cdr. R.A. Fell, RN) picks up 34 survivors of the American merchant Cornelia P. Spencer that was torpedoed and sunk the previous day by the German submarine U-188 about 300 nautical miles off the coast of Somalia in position 02º08'N, 50º10'E.

12 Feb, 1944
HMS Relentless (Lt.Cdr. R.A. Fell, RN) intercepts the German tanker Charlotte Schliemann (7747 GRT) in the Indian Ocean in position 23º23'S, 74º37'E. However before the German ship can be captured, she is scuttled by her own crew. (see map)


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