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{{Short description|Black Swan-class sloop}}
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|Ship country= United Kingdom
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|Ship name= HMS ''Ibis''
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|Ship builder= [[Furness Shipbuilding Co Ltd|Furness Shipbuilding Co. Ltd.]]
|Ship laid down= 22 September 1939
|Ship launched= 28 November 1940
|Ship completed=30 August 1941
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|Ship honours=*ATLANTIC 1941-42
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|Ship identification=[[Pennant number]] U99
|Ship fate=Sunk 10 November 1942
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'''HMS ''Ibis''''', [[pennant number]] U99, was a {{sclass|Black Swan|sloop|0}} [[sloop-of-war|sloop]] of the [[Royal Navy]], named after the [[Ibis]].

She was built by [[Furness Shipbuilding Co Ltd|Furness Shipbuilding Co. Ltd.]], [[Haverton Hill|Haverton Hill-on-Tees]], [[County Durham|Co. Durham]], was laid down on 22 September 1939, launched on 28 November 1940, and completed 30 August 1941. She was adopted by the civil community of [[Stoke Newington]] in London as part of the [[Warship Week]] savings campaign in 1942.

''Ibis'' was sunk by an [[airborne torpedo]] from an [[Regia Aeronautica|Italian aircraft]] in the Western [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean]], north of Algiers, [[French Algeria]], on 10 November 1942.

The Scottish comedian [[Rikki Fulton]] was a member of her crew.

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==Publications==
* {{Cite Colledge2006}}
* {{cite book|last=Hague|first=Arnold|title=Sloops: A History of the 71 Sloops Built in Britain and Australia for the British, Australian and Indian Navies 1926–1946|year=1993|publisher=World Ship Society|location=Kendal, England|isbn=0-905617-67-3}}
*Hughes, Robert (1975). ''Flagship to Murmansk''. London, England: Future Publications. ISBN 0860072665. Pages 83–6 give an account of the sinking of the ''Ibis'' and the rescue of survivors as seen by HMS ''Scylla''.

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