HMS Gipsy (H63)

HMS Gipsy ( H63 ) was a G-Class destroyer of the British Royal Navy during the Second World War.

The ship was launched on 7 November 1935 as part of a class of eight destroyers at Fairfield in Govan, Glasgow, from the stack. Put into service, it was on 22 February 1936.

The destroyer was initially unlike the majority of its sister ships used with the 2nd Destroyer Flotilla in the waters around the British Isles. His duties after the war began particular belonged securing convoys and warships in the waters around the British Isles.

On November 21, 1939 HMS Gipsy ran together with the Polish destroyers ORP Burza, ORP and ORP Grom Błyskawica from Harwich to patrol. In the port control the ship struck a mine that had been a few days previously laid by German destroyers. HMS Gipsy broke in two and sank after the survivors of ORP Burza had been taken over.