HMS Ivanhoe (D-16) was an I class destroyer laid down by the Yarrow Shipbuilding Company, 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 HMS Intrepid and HMS Inglefield. HMS Ivanhoe struck a mine as she operated on a minelaying mission off the Dutch coast and sank in the North Sea off the Friesian Islands in Holland on 1 September 1940.


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