| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Escort destroyer |
| Class | Hunt (Type III) |
| Pennant | L 19 |
| Built by | Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. (Govan, Scotland) |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | 16 Jan, 1941 |
| Launched | 27 Apr, 1942 |
| Commissioned | |
| End service | |
| Loss position | |
| History | Loaned to the Free French Navy and renamed La Combattante.
Claimed torpedoed and sunk east of Dungeness by the German (Seehund) midget submarine U-5330 (Lt. Sparbrodt). She more likely sank on a mine laid on 16 February 1945 by German MTBs (Schnellboote or E-boats) off the Humber estuary. |
| Career notes | Became the Free French destroyer La Combattante |
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