HMS Ivanhoe 1940
_IWM_FL_22376.jpg){kind=link}
Marker: recorded wreck position (Second World War).
Key facts
| Name | HMS Ivanhoe | Wikidata label |
|---|---|---|
| Year lost | 1940 | English Wikipedia lead text (year following a loss verb, parsed) |
| Era | Second World War | derived from year |
| Ship type | destroyer | Wikidata P31 instance of |
| Cause of loss | Scuttled | Keyword match in English Wikipedia lead sentence |
| Nationality / flag | United Kingdom | Wikidata P137 operator → P17 country |
| Operator | Royal Navy | Wikidata P137 operator |
| Conflict | World War II | Wikidata P607 conflict |
| Sea / ocean | North Sea | Natural Earth marine areas (public domain), point-in-polygon |
| Nearest coast | Netherlands | Natural Earth (public domain); approx. 78 km from land |
| Position | 53.4450, 3.7567 | Wikidata P625 coordinate location (CC0) |
About the wreck
HMS Ivanhoe was an I-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1930s. During the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939, the ship enforced the arms blockade imposed by Britain and France on both sides as part of the Mediterranean Fleet. Before the start of World War II, the ship was modified so that she could be used to lay mines by removing some of her armament. Ivanhoe was transferred to Western Approaches Command shortly after the war began and helped to sink one German submarine in October 1939. She was converted to a minelayer while undergoing a refit in November–December and laid minefields in German coastal waters as well as anti-submarine minefields off the British coast until she was reconverted back to her destroyer configuration in February 1940. Ivanhoe reverted to her minelaying role during the Norwegian Campaign in April 1940 and then laid a number of minefields off the Dutch coast during the Battle of the Netherlands in May. The ship participated in the Dunkirk evacuation until she was badly damaged by German aircraft on 1 June.
Location
- Recorded position: 53.4450, 3.7567 (Wikidata P625 coordinate location (CC0); may be approximate)
- Sea / ocean: North Sea
- Nearest coast: Netherlands
Wreck positions on this site are for interest only and are not for navigation. Many wrecks are war graves or legally protected: never disturb human remains or remove artefacts, and check local law before diving.
Text adapted from the Wikipedia article HMS Ivanhoe (D16) (revision 1375235719), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: excerpted from the article lead section; condensed by selecting paragraphs and trimming at sentence boundaries; citations and formatting removed. No text added. This excerpt is available under the same licence.
Wreck facts from Wikidata (CC0).
Nearby wrecks
- HMS Esk 1940 · 3 km
- HMS Aboukir 1914 · 49 km
- HMS E47 65 km
- Doris 73 km
- HMS Lutine 1799 · 85 km
- Palmwood shipwreck 90 km
Other wrecks of the World War II
- Stanbrook 1939
- U-12 1939
- U-27 1939
- U-39 1939
- USS Sailfish 1939
- Artigliere 1940
- Bartolomeo Colleoni 1940
- French destroyer Maillé Brézé 1940
- German destroyer ZH1 1940
- German submarine U-15 1940
All 599 wrecks of the World War II →
Browse more: Europe wrecks · wrecks off Netherlands · North Sea · Second World War