| Name: | ERIDGE |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Keel: | 27/03/1940 |
| Launched: | 20/08/1940 |
| Completed: | 28/02/1941 |
| Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
| Yard: | Wallsend |
| Yard Number: | 1581 |
| Dimensions: | 1050disp - 1430disp, 264.3 x 31.5 x 8.3(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 2 x Steam turbines, SR geared, Parsons type, 19000shp |
| Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 27.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 3 x 2 x 4.0ins AA, 1 x 4 x 2pdr AA , 2 x 1 x 20mm guns; |
| 2 x 1 x depth charge throwers, 1 x depth charge rail | |
| History: | |
| 28/02/1941 | British Royal Navy |
| 10/1946 | Broken up |
| Comments: | Member of the Hunt Class (Type II) of destroyers |
| 29/08/1942: Torpedoed & damaged off Egypt, by German MTB. Damage not repaired | |
| Used as a base ship at Alexandria for the rest of the war | |
| 10/1946: Broken up at Alexandria |
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Above: Towed in by ROYSTERER. Photo is copyright of the Imperial War Museum
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Above photo is copyright of the Imperial War Museum
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