HMS Ivanhoe (D16)
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HMS Ivanhoe (D16) was an I-class destroyer laid down by the Yarrow Shipbuilders, Limited, at Scotstoun in Glasgow on 6 February 1936, launched on 11 February 1937 and commissioned on 24 August 1937.
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 Holland on 1 September 1940.
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