HMS Intrepid

HMS Intrepid (D-10) was an I class destroyer laid down by J. Samuel White and Company, Limited, at Cowes on the Isle of Wight on 13 January 1936, launched on 17 December 1936 and commissioned on 29 July 1937. HMS Intrepid attacked and sank the enemy German submarine U-45 south-west of Ireland on 14 October 1939 in company with the destroyers HMS Ivanhoe and HMS Inglefield, and participated in the pursuit and destruction of the enemy German battleship Bismarck in May 1941. HMS Intrepid was attacked by enemy German Ju-88 aircraft and sank off Leros Island in the Aegean Sea on 27 September 1943.