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HMS Ilex (D61)
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| Built By: | John Brown and Company, Limited, Clydebank, Scotland |
| Laid down: | 10 March 1936 |
| Launched: | 28 January 1937 |
| Commissioned: | 7 July 1937 |
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| Fate: | Scrapped in Sicily, 1948 |
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HMS Ilex (D61), named after the Holly genus, was an I-class destroyer that served with the Royal Navy during World War II.
Ilex attacked and sank the enemy German submarine U-42 south-west of Ireland on 13 October 1939 in company with the destroyer Imogen, and participated in the Battle of Calabria and the Battle of Cape Spada in July 1940, and the Battle of Cape Matapan in March 1941. Ilex was sold for scrap at Malta on 22 January 1946 and broken up in Sicily in 1948.
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| Royal Navy | Icarus • Ilex • Imogen • Imperial • Impulsive • Inglefield • Intrepid • Isis • Ivanhoe • Inconstant • Ithuriel |
| Turkish Navy | Sultanhisar • Demirhisar |
| List of destroyer classes of the Royal Navy | |
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