HMS Tartar (F43)

HMS Tartar ( F43/G43 ) was a destroyer of the Tribal class of the Royal Navy.

The ship was on August 26, 1936 at the shipyard of Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd.. placed in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear Kiel, launched on October 21, 1937, and made available as flotilla into service on 10 March 1939.

After the acceptance tests, the Tartar of the 6th Destroyer Flotilla of the Home Fleet was assigned. The tests were interrupted by the sinking of HMS Thetis in Liverpool Bay on 1 June 1939 where she served as the command center for the rescue operations.

When war broke out she was together with her ​​sister ships as escorts for convoys used hedge for larger warships and submarine hunting.

As of March 4, 1941, the Tartar be held mainly in the Arctic Ocean and was engaged in the search for German weather ships, which resulted in the Boarding of Lauenburg and of Capture important codebooks on June 28.

In August 1942, the tartare was temporarily assigned to the Force H, while escorting ships to Gibraltar. After her arrival, she participated in Operation Pedestal in part to supply Malta. In September she was back in England and escorted two convoys to the Soviet Union. She then returned in October back to the Mediterranean where she supported the Operation Torch in November.

After the war, the Tartar returned on 17 November 1945 after Plymouth. She served for some time as an accommodation for naval personnel and was sold on January 6, 1948 scrapped and scrapped from February 22 in Newport.