HMS Mendip (L 60)
Escort destroyer of the Hunt (Type I) class
Navy: The Royal Navy
Type: Escort destroyer
Class: Hunt (Type I)
Penant: L 60
Built by: Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd. (Wallsend-on-Tyne, U.K.): Wallsend
Ordered:
Laid down: 10 Aug, 1939
Launched: 9 Apr, 1940
Commissioned: 12 Oct, 1940
End service:
History: Transferred to China May 1948 and renamed Lin Fu. sold to the Egyptian Navy becoming Mohamed ali-El-Kebir 15 November 1949, renamed Ibrahim-El-Awal 1951. Was captured by the Israeli navy after combat and surrender in the 1956 Sinai campaign. Renamed INS Haifa. Was decommissioned in 1968 and sunk as a target ship after being hit by a Gabriel missile.
