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HMS Eskimo (F75)
HMS ''Eskimo'' was a destroyer, laid down by the High Walker Yard of Vickers Armstrong at Newcastle-on-Tyne on 5 August 1936. She was launched on 3 September 1937〔''The Times (London)'', Saturday, 4 September 1937, p.12〕 and commissioned on 30 December 1938. ''Eskimo'' served throughout the Second World War, seeing action in Norway, the Mediterranean, the English Channel and in Burma. After the war ''Eskimo'' was used as an accommodation and headquarters ship, finally being used as a practice target before being scrapped in 1949.
==Operational history==
''Eskimo'' participated in the Second Battle of Narvik in April 1940.〔''The Times (London)'', Friday, 26 April 1940, p.6〕 On 12 April ''Eskimo'' was hit by a torpedo fired from German destroyer . The explosion caused severe damage, blowing off ''Eskimos bow. After temporary repairs, by the shipwrights of the fleet repair ship ''Vindictive'' at Skjelfjorden in Norway, ''Eskimo'' was able to return to the Vickers Armstrong works at Newcastle for rebuilding.〔
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She supported the Allied landings in North Africa in November 1942 and served with the 10th Destroyer Flotilla at Plymouth. ''Eskimo'' was extensively damaged when two German dive bombers attacked her in the Mediterranean while taking part in Operation Husky.〔 She cornered and sank the enemy German submarine while in company with the Canadian destroyer and a Liberator aircraft of the Czech air force in the English Channel north of Brest on 24 June 1944. During the final days of the war, she operated in the Far East.
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