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| Built By: | Yarrow Shipbuilders Limited, Scotstoun, Glasgow |
| Laid down: | 6 February 1936, launched on and commissioned on |
| Launched: | 11 February 1937 |
| Commissioned: | 24 August 1937 |
| Paid off: | |
| Fate: | Mined and sank, North Sea, 1 September 1940. |
| Pennant: D16 | |
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Ivanhoe.
HMS Ivanhoe (D16) was an I-class destroyer that served with the Royal Navy during World War II. Ivanhoe attacked and sank the enemy German submarine U-45 south-west of Ireland on 14 October 1939 in company with the destroyers Intrepid and Inglefield. Ivanhoe struck a mine as she operated on a minelaying mission off the Dutch coast, and sank in the North Sea off the Frisian Islands in the Netherlands on 1 September 1940.
See also
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| Royal Navy | Icarus • Ilex • Imogen • Imperial • Impulsive • Inglefield • Intrepid • Isis • Ivanhoe • Inconstant • Ithuriel |
| Turkish Navy | Sultanhisar • Demirhisar |
| List of destroyer classes of the Royal Navy | |
