HMS Grove (L77)
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HMS Grove (L77) was a Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". destroyer of the Royal Navy. She had been completed in early 1942 at the Swan Hunter yard at Wallsend-on-Tyne.
Service history
Initial success
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Loss
While escorting convoy MW-11, Grove was hit by two torpedoes fired by Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". on 12 June 1942. The ship sank with the loss of 110 men.[1] The destroyer Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". rescued 79 survivors. She had been returning to Alexandria from Tobruk, having run aground at Tobruk, damaging the port propeller shaft and the screw itself; her speed had been reduced to Script error: No such module "convert"..[2]
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- Hunt-class destroyers of the Royal Navy
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- World War II destroyers of the United Kingdom
- Ships sunk by German submarines in World War II
- World War II shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea
- Maritime incidents in June 1942