HMS Isis (D87)
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Description
The I-class ships were improved versions of the preceding H-class. They displaced Script error: No such module "convert". at standard load and Script error: No such module "convert". at deep load. The ships had an overall length of Script error: No such module "convert"., a beam of Script error: No such module "convert". and a draught of Script error: No such module "convert".. They were powered by two Parsons geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft, using steam provided by three Admiralty three-drum boilers. The turbines developed a total of Script error: No such module "convert". and were intended to give a maximum speed of Script error: No such module "convert"..[1] Isis reached a speed of Script error: No such module "convert". from Template:Cvt during her sea trials.[2] The ships carried enough fuel oil to give them a range of Script error: No such module "convert". at Script error: No such module "convert".. Their crew numbered 145 officers and ratings.[1]
The ships mounted four 4.7-inch (120 mm) Mark IX guns in single mounts, designated 'A', 'B', 'X' and 'Y' from bow to stern. For anti-aircraft (AA) defence, they had two quadruple mounts for the 0.5 inch Vickers Mark III machine gun. The I class was fitted with two above-water quintuple torpedo tube mounts amidships for Script error: No such module "convert". torpedoes.[3] One depth charge rack and two throwers were fitted; 16 depth charges were originally carried,[1] but this increased to 35 shortly after the war began.[4] The I-class ships were fitted with the ASDIC sound detection system to locate submarines underwater.[5]
Construction and career
Isis, named for the Egyptian goddess, was laid down by the Yarrow and Company, at Scotstoun in Glasgow on 6 February 1936, launched on 12 November 1936 and commissioned on 2 June 1937. Isis took part in the evacuation of Greece in April 1941. On 19 February 1943 she and the escort destroyer Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". and a Vickers Wellington medium bomber attacked and sank the Template:GS in the Mediterranean Sea north-east of Benghazi.
Isis was hit in 1941 off Beirut, Lebanon after the Battle of Crete. She pursued two Vichy French destroyers which escaped. A Junkers Ju 88 aircraft then attacked and severely damaged her. Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". attempted to tow her to Haifa, Palestine. The tow rope snapped, however the engines were restarted and she successfully reached Haifa.
Isis struck a mine and sank on 20 July 1944 at the position Script error: No such module "Coordinates". in channel 'T' off the western sector of the Normandy landing beaches.[6][7] She was the last interwar standard destroyer lost in the war, with eleven officers and 143 ratings lost.[8]
Notes
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