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	Eridge in July 1941
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Eridge
Builder	Swan Hunter, Tyne and Wear
Laid down	21 November 1939
Launched	20 August 1940
Commissioned	28 February 1941
Reclassified	Base ship on 29 August 1942 (constructive total loss)
Fate	Sold for scrap, 1946
General characteristics Type II
Class and type	Hunt-class destroyer
Displacement	1,050 long tons (1,070 t) standard; 1,430 long tons (1,450 t) full load;
Length	85.3 m (279 ft 10 in) o/a
Beam	9.6 m (31 ft 6 in)
Draught	2.51 m (8 ft 3 in)
Propulsion	2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers; 2 shaft Parsons geared turbines, 19,000 shp (14,000 kW);
Speed	27 knots (31 mph; 50 km/h); 25.5 kn (29.3 mph; 47.2 km/h) full;
Range	3,600 nmi (6,700 km) at 14 kn (26 km/h)
Complement	164
Armament	6 × QF 4 in Mark XVI on twin mounts Mk. XIX; 4 × QF 2 pdr Mk. VIII on quad mount MK.VII; 2 × 20 mm Oerlikons on single mounts P Mk. III; 110 depth charges, 2 throwers, 3 racks;
Service record
Commanders:	Lt.Cdr. William Frank Niemann Gregory-Smith

HMS Eridge was a Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1940 and served during the Second World War.

Service history

On 29 August 1942, Eridge assisted the destroyers Hero and Hurworth in sinking the German submarine U-568.^[1] At 04:15 on 29 August 1942, she began shelling Axis positions off El Daba, Egypt, at 31°7′N 28°26′E / 31.117°N 28.433°E / 31.117; 28.433, together with the destroyers Croome and Hursley. At 05:00, she was permanently disabled by a 450mm torpedo fired by the Italian motor torpedo boat MTSM-228. The attack caused five fatalities on board Eridge.^[2]

She was towed to Alexandria by the destroyer Aldenham,^[3] where Eridge was declared a constructive total loss due to structural damage to the hull and damage beyond repair to the main turbines, condenser, gearing and intermediate shaft. The destroyer was used as a base ship in situ for the rest of the war and sold for scrapping in October 1946.^[4]

References

^ "HMS Eridge (L 68) of the Royal Navy - British Escort destroyer of the Hunt (Type II) class - Allied Warships of WWII - uboat.net". www.uboat.net. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
^ Paul Kemp (1999). The Admiralty regrets: British warship losses of the 20th century. Sutton. p. 192. ISBN 9780750915670.
^ "Commander Alex Stuart-Menteth". The Daily Telegraph. 6 June 2000. Archived from the original on 16 February 2015.
^ Webb, Tim (1 August 2020). "HMS ERIDGE". Ships Nostalgia. Retrieved 12 April 2024.

Publications

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.
English, John (1987). The Hunts: a history of the design, development and careers of the 86 destroyers of this class built for the Royal and Allied Navies during World War II. England: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-44-4.