HMS Tyrian
Vessel name on Arrival: HMS Tyrian
Original Builder: Swan, Hunter, & Wigham Richardson, Wallsend on Tyne
Original Yard No: 1665
Official Number:
Vessel Type: destroyer
GRT: 1802
Year Built: 1942
Arrival Date: 09/03/1965
Breakup Started: 18/03/1965
Date First Beached: 13/06/1965
Date Breakup Completed: 08/12/1965
Draught For’d: 7' 9"
Draught Aft: 11' 00"
Name Changes:
'T'-Class Fleet Destroyer HMS Tyrian for the Royal Navy Pennant No. R-67
Later converted post-war to a Type 16 Fast Anti-Submarine Frigate Pennant No. F-67
Battle Honours
1943 – Atlantic, Sicily, Salerno, Mediterranean
1944 – Adriatic, South France, Aegean
Other Information:
13-03-1941 : Ordered
15-10-1941 : Laid down
27-07-1942 : Launched
08-04-1943 : Completed
Dimensions : 110.6 metres x 10.9 metres
Tonnages : 1,802 x 2,530 tons
Propulsion : Twin-Screw Parsons Geared Steam Turbines developing 40,000 SHP
Boilers : 2 Nos. Admiralty 3-Drum Boilers
Speed : 36.75 knots as Destroyer R67 / 32 knots as Fast Anti-Submarine Frigate F67
VESSEL HISTORY SUMMARY
04-1943
Builders trials and commissioning
Accepted into service for duty with 24th Destroyer Flotilla
Passage to Scapa Flow for work-up with Home Fleet
05-1943
On completion of work-up took passage to join Flotilla in the Mediterranean
Deployed with Flotilla in Central Mediterranean for escort and patrol duties
06-1943
Escort and patrol duty in continuation
Preparation for Sicily landings (Operation HUSKY)
07-1943
Deployed in Malta
08-1943
Sailed from Malta for HUSKY landings duties.
Joined destroyer screen for HM Battleships to provide cover in Ionian Sea against Italian fleet intervention during Sicily landings.
Carried out bombardment of Italian mainland from Messina Straits.
Provided naval gunfire support for allied landings in Calabria
09-1943
Supported landings by British XIII Corps near Reggio and Villa San Giovanni.
Deployed with to provide cover for landingscat Salerno (Operation AVALANCHE)
Provided naval gunfire support and AA protection for Fleet units off beaches.
10-1943
Deployed in support of shore operations and convoy interception.
Sank supply ship and captured another during Interception operation off Albania
11-1943
Carried out bombardment of Volturno.
Carried out bombardment of shore installations in Gulf of Gaeta
12-1943
Transferred to Adriatic for support of military operations and for interception of enemy supply convoys.
In action with enemy convoy off Kotor and sank small craft.
01-1944
Adriatic deployment in continuation.
Bombarded Rovigno in support of military operations.
Embarked General Alexander for passage from Alexandria to Anzio.
02-1944
Deployed in Adriatic with Flotilla for support of military convoys and attacks on shipping.
Carried out bombardment of Vela Luka, Yugoslavia.
03-04 1944
Adriatic deployment in continuation.
Nominated for support of landings in South France as part of US Navy Task Force.
07-1944
Transferred to US Command for support of landings in South France.
08-1944
Joined Task Force 88 under US Command for escort of Escort Aircraft Carriers.
Sailed from Malta as destroyer screen for HM Escort Carriers as Task Group 88.1
Deployed for defence of TG88.1 during landings in South France.
Withdrawn with TG88.1 for replenishment at Maddalena.
Returned to Assault Area with TG88.1.
Withdrawn with TG 88.1 for replenishment
Released from DRAGOON and took passage to Alexandria.
Returned to RN control.
09-1944
Joined British Aegean Force with Flotilla to support military operations to occupy islands and in preparation for landings on Greek mainland .
10-1944
Carried out bombardment of Melos with HM Cruiser AURORA and HM Escort Destroyer TETCOTT.
11-1944
Carried out bombardments of Civitano and Pedaso with HM Destroyer GRENVILLE.
12-1944
Passage to UK to prepare for service in British Pacific Fleet.
01-1945
Taken in hand for refit by HM Dockyard, Chatham to prepare for service with 4th Destroyer Flotilla in British Pacific Fleet
02-05 1945
Under refit.
06-1945
Post refit trials and preparation for foreign service.
07-1945
Passage to Sydney.
08-1945
Joined British Pacific Fleet on arrival
Deployed to assist with occupation of Shanghai as part of Task Group 111.
P o s t W a r N o t e s
HMS TYRIAN returned to UK after a visit to Melbourne with HM Destroyer TENACIOUS, TUMULT and UNDINE in February 1946. She was reduced to Reserve status at Harwich after arrival on 30th May that year. Transferred to the Reserve Fleet at Chatham in 1949 she laid-up there until 1951 when the ship was converted to a Type 16 Anti-Submarine Frigate at Liverpool. On completion in 1952 she served with the 2nd Training Flotilla at Portland and attended the Coronation Review at Spithead in June 1953 with the Squadron. In September 1953 during NATO Exercise MARINER she ran aground on Haisborough Sands. Again reduced to Reserve in November 1956 she was initially laid-up at Chatham but transferred to Lisahally, Northern Ireland in 1957. Placed on the Disposal List in 1965 she arrived in tow at the Breaker’s in Troon, Ayrshire for demolition on 9th March 1965.