HMS Exmoor

Escort destroyer of the Hunt (Type II) class

The Royal Navy Type: Escort destroyer Class: Hunt (Type II)  Pennant: L 08  Built by: Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd. (Wallsend-on-Tyne, U.K.): Wallsend  Ordered:   Laid down: 7 Jun, 1940  Launched: <12 Mar, 1941  Commissioned: 18 Oct, 1941  End service:         History: Renamed HMS Exmoor (ii) before being commissioned.

Sold to the Royal Danish Navy in July 1952 being renamed Valdemar Sejr.
Scrapped in 1966 at Ystad, Sweden. 

Former name: HMS Burton

HMS Exmoor

Noteable events involving Exmoor (ii) include:

17 Dec, 1941
The German submarine U-131 was sunk north-east of Madeira, Portugal, in position 34.12N, 13.35W, by depth charges and gunfire from the British escort destroyers HMS Exmoor and HMS Blankney, the British destroyer HMS Stanley, the British corvette HMS Pentstemon and the British sloop HMS Stork, and by depth charges from a Martlet aircraft (Sqdn. 802) of the British escort carrier HMS Audacity.

27 Mar, 1943
HMS Exmoor (Lt. D.T. McBarnett, DSC) picks up 13 survivors from the British merchant City of Guildford that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-593 off Derna in position 33.00N, 22.50E.

10 Mar, 1944
The German submarine U-450 was sunk in the western Mediterranean south of Ostia, in position 41.11N, 12.27E, by depth charges from the British escort destroyers HMS Blankney, HMS Blencathra, HMS Brecon, HMS Exmoor and the US destroyer USS Madison.

Contributed by: Fiona Furguson