Hms Icarus (D03)

HMS Icarus (D03) was an I-class destroyer laid down by John Brown and Company, Limited, at Clydebank in Scotland on 9 March 1936, launched on 26 November 1936 and commissioned on 1 May 1937. She served with the Royal Navy in World War II. On on 29 November 1939, Icarus attacked and sank the U-35 while in company with the destroyers HMS Kingston and HMS Kashmir off the Shetland Islands. She participated in the Second Battle of Narvik in April 1940, in the pursuit and destruction of the German battleship Bismarck in May 1941, and in Operation Pedestal, the escorting of a convoy to Malta in August 1942. Icarus sank four German U-boats: Icarus paid off on 29 August 1946, was handed over to the British Iron and Steel Corporation on 29 October 1946 and broken up at Troon in Scotland. See HMS Icarus for other ships of this name. Icarus

 

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