Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
Royal Navy — Destroyer H04

HMS Tenedos (H04)

Admiralty 'S' class destroyer

HMS Tenedos (H04)
Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 19818 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate — H04 Photograph of British destroyer HMS Tenedos , underway at speed.

Service

  1. Royal Navy as HMS Tenedos (H04)1919 — 5 April 1942947 days of the war
Admiralty 'S' class destroyer Particulars
Name
HMS Tenedos
Pennant / hull number
H04
Builder
Hawthorn Leslie
Ordered
9 April 1917
Laid down
6 December 1917
Launched
21 October 1918
Commissioned
1919
Fate
Sunk by Japanese aircraft 5 April 1942
By aircraft (1942)
Status
Wreck

HMS Tenedos was a Admiralty 'S' class destroyer in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number H04. Her keel was laid at Hawthorn Leslie on 6 December 1917. She entered service in 1919, having been launched on 21 October 1918.

She was in commission for 947 days of the Second World War.

She was sunk on 5 April 1942 by aircraft, at 6°57′N 79°51′E. The wreck survives.

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Sources

  • Facts harvested from HMS Tenedos (H04) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
  • Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 19818 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons