| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Escort destroyer |
| Class | Hunt (Type III) |
| Pennant | L 73 |
| Built by | Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd. (Wallsend-on-Tyne, U.K.): Wallsend |
| Ordered | 28 Jul 1940 |
| Laid down | 23 Jun 1941 |
| Launched | 5 Mar 1942 |
| Commissioned | 10 Oct 1942 |
| End service | |
| History | Scrapped at Grays on 22 November 1956. |
Commands listed for HMS Melbreak (L 73)
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| Commander | From | To | |
| 1 | Lt. Gerald Edward Christopher Talbot Baines, RN | 28 Aug 1942 | 13 Jul 1943 |
| 2 | Lt. Geoffrey John Kirkby, RN | 13 Jul 1943 | 2 Feb 1945 |
| 3 | Lt. Evelyn Francis Hamilton-Meikle, RN | 3 Feb 1945 | late 1945 |
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Noteable events involving Melbreak include:
11 Jul 1943
The British escort destroyers HMS Melbreak (Lt. G.E.C.G. Baines, RN), HMS Wensleydale (Lt. W.P. Goodfellow, RNVR) and the Norwegian escort destroyer HNoMS Glaisdale (Lt. D.E. Kjeholt, RNN) intercept a German convoy off Quessant, France. In the resulting battle the German minesweeper M-153 (874 tons) is sunk by the Glaisdale but Melbreak in turn is heavily damaged by the German torpedo boats T-24 and T-25.