Category Archives: RN Destroyers

After Nearly a Decade HMS Daring Prepares for Sea

By Matthew Moss in Naval, News, Royal Navy, Surface Combatant, UK October 30, 2026 The Royal Navy’s HMS Daring is approaching 3,500 days alongside but there’s signs her years-long period out of action is finally coming to an end. The Type 45’s social media pages have sprung back to life in recent months hinting atContinue reading “After Nearly a Decade HMS Daring Prepares for Sea”

HMS Dragon (D35) Daring-class air defence destroyer coming into Valletta, Malta – September 20, 2026 SRC: INST- horizonmalta / INT- horizon.mt

HMS Kempenfelt/HMCS Assiniboine a C-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s.

A flotilla leader, she saw service in the Home Fleet before World War II and the ship made several deployments to Spanish waters during the Spanish Civil War, enforcing the arms blockade imposed by Britain and France on both sides of the conflict. Kempenfelt was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) in 1939 andContinue reading “HMS Kempenfelt/HMCS Assiniboine a C-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s.”

HMS Dauntless (D33) Daring-class air defence destroyer coming into Plymouth, England – September 11, 2026 SRC: FB- Gemzies photography

HMS Martin was an M-class destroyer of the Royal Navy, launched at the Tyneside yard of Vickers-Armstrongs on 12 December 1940. She had a busy but brief wartime career, being sunk by the German submarine U-431 on 10 November 1942 off Algiers.

Service history Convoy PQ 17 Martin was an escort for the Home Fleet during the ill-fated Convoy PQ 17, sailing from Scapa on 30 June and cruising off Bear Island, arriving back at Scapa Flow on 11 July. Martin left Scapa Flow on 15 July for Seidisfjord and left there on 20 July in company with Marne, Middleton and Blankney for Archangel loaded with replenishments for the escorts and merchant ships. They arrived atContinue reading “HMS Martin was an M-class destroyer of the Royal Navy, launched at the Tyneside yard of Vickers-Armstrongs on 12 December 1940. She had a busy but brief wartime career, being sunk by the German submarine U-431 on 10 November 1942 off Algiers.”