H.M.S. Ivanhoe (1937)

H.M.S. Ivanhoe (1937)
Pendant Number:	D16
Builder:	Yarrow & Company^[1]
Launched:	11 Feb, 1937^[2]
Sunk:	1 Sep, 1940^[3]

H.M.S. Ivanhoe was one of thirty-five "G","H" and "I" Class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Commander Findlay took the newly completed Ivanhoe out toward the Mediterranean on 11 September 1937, destined to replace Arrow in the Third Destroyer Flotilla The ship was due at Malta on 17 September.^[4]

Captains

Commander John V. Findlay, c. 5 August, 1937^[5]
Lieutenant-Commander Edward C. Bayldon, – 23 November, 1938
Captain Arthur G. Talbot, 23 November, 1938 – 12 December, 1938 (and as Captain (D), Third Destroyer Flotilla)
Commander Basil Jones, 23 November, 1938^[6] – 30 January, 1940^[7]
Commander Philip H. Hadow, 30 Januarwy, 1940^[8] – 1 September, 1940^[9]

Perhaps Talbot was not in command of the ship itself?

Footnotes

↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 39.
↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 39.
↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 39.
↑ "Mediterranean Destroyers." The Times (London, England), 11 Sept. 1937, p. 15.
↑ "Command of the Ivanhoe." The Times (London, England), 5 Aug. 1937, p. 6.
↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.