HMS Ilex (D61)
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HMS Ilex
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HMS Ilex
HMS Ilex (D61), named after the Holly genus, was an I-class destroyer laid down by John Brown and Company, Limited, at Clydebank in Scotland on 10 March 1936, launched on 28 January 1937 and commissioned on 7 July 1937. Ilex attacked and sank the enemy German submarine U-42 south-west of Ireland on 13 October 1939 in company with the destroyer Imogen, and participated in the Battle of Calabria and the Battle of Cape Spada in July 1940, and the Battle of Cape Matapan in March 1941. Ilex was sold for scrap at Malta on 22 January 1946 and broken up in Sicily in 1948.
See HMS Ilex for other ships of this name.