History
United Kingdom
Name	HMSExmoor
Ordered	1939
Builder	Vickers-Armstrongs,Tyneside
Laid down	8 June 1939
Launched	25 January 1940
Commissioned	18 October 1940
Honours and awards	North Sea, 1941
Fate	Sunk on 25 February 1941
Badge	On a Field Red, two foxes brushes in Saltire between two mullets Gold.
General characteristics
Class and type	Hunt-classdestroyer
Displacement	1,000 long tons (1,016 t) standard 1,340 long tons (1,362 t) full load
Length	280 ft (85 m)
Beam	29 ft (8.8 m)
Draught	10 ft 9 in (3.28 m)
Propulsion	Two x Admiralty 3 drum boilers Two shaftParsonsgeared turbines 19,000 shp
Speed	27.5 kn (50.9 km/h; 31.6 mph) (26 kn (48 km/h; 30 mph) full)
Range	3,500 nmi (6,480 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h) / 1,000 nmi (2,000 km) at 26 knots (48 km/h)
Complement	146
Armament	4 ×QF 4-inch (102 mm) Mark XVI guns on twin mounts Mk. XIX 4 ×QF 2-pounder (40 mm) Mk VIII AA guns on quad mount MK.VII 2 ×20-mm Oerlikon AA guns on single mounts P Mk. III 40depth charges, 2 throwers, 1 rack

HMSExmoor was aHunt-classdestroyer of theRoyal Navy. She was a member of the first subgroup of the class, and saw service in theSecond World War, before being sunk by GermanE-boats in 1941.

Exmoor was ordered under the 1939 Naval Building Programme from Parsons Marine Steam Turbines Company, with the hull building being subcontracted to theVickers-Armstrongs yard,Tyneside. She was laid down as Job No J4099 on 8 June 1939 and launched on 25 January 1940. She was commissioned into service on 18 October 1940, and after working up, was assigned to the16th Destroyer Flotilla atScapa Flow.

Exmoor arrived at theHome Fleet at Scapa Flow in November, and on 6 November was detached in company withPytchley to escort the merchant ship SSAdda to theFaeroe Islands.Exmoor returned on 11 November and resumed her working up period. In December she escorted thearmed merchant cruisersChitral andSalopian on their way to begin patrols.Exmoor then sailed toPlymouth.

In JanuaryExmoor was part of the escort for the battleshipQueen Elizabeth as she sailed fromPortsmouth toRosyth.Exmoor then sailed toHarwich to begin escorting coastal convoys through theNorth Sea with the 16th Destroyer Flotilla. She carried out these duties into February, and on 23 February was deployed withShearwater to escort a convoy from theThames estuary toMethil. The convoy was attacked byE-boats as it passed offLowestoft on 25 February.Exmoor suffered an explosion aft, suffering major structural damage and rupturing a fuel supply line. A fire soon broke out which spread rapidly.Exmoor capsized and sank in ten minutes. The survivors were picked up byShearwater and the trawlerCommander Evans, and were taken toGreat Yarmouth.Exmoor had either been hit by a torpedo fired by the E-BoatS30 commanded byKlaus Feldt, as the Germans claimed, or had struck amine as the Admiralty claimed.^[1] The wreck is designated as aprotected place under theProtection of Military Remains Act 1986. During a 2008-2011 marine biology survey of the area in which she was sunk, theRVCefas Endeavour discovered the wreck.^[2]

A later Hunt-class destroyer, previously planned as HMSBurton, was renamed and launched asExmoor.

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969].Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing.ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.

• HMS Exmoor's wartime career
• Exmoor at Uboat.net

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