HMS Limbourne & Operation Tunnel
Channel: DrCharlesw
Date: 18/09/2011

Redone and finalised video of a dive on HMS Limbourne in July 2011.

HMS Limbourne ( L57 ), built in 1941 by Stephen & Sons Ltd., Alexander Stephen, Glasgow.  She was a Hunt class destroyer, equiped with 4 x 4" guns, pom poms, torpedo tubes, depth charge rack, 2 geared turbines, dual prop shaft, twin 3 drum boilers.

She was very active in her 1 year of life, exporting Battleships, anti-submarine duty in the Bay of Biscay, entered Casablanca during N African landings etc.

But during Operation Tunnel, she was torpedoed on the 23rd October 1943 by T-22, a german Torpedo boat. The Torpedo boat was from the German 4th Torpedo Boat, and was escorting the Münsterland, a German blockade runner. HMS Charybdis was also torpedoed and sunk.

The Limbourne was badly damaged, and despite attempts to save her, she eventually had to be torpedoed by HMS Rocket to preevent capture by the enemy. 40 lives were lost, and no bodies from the destoyer were ever washed up.

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