Dates: 1941 - 1958

HMS Ledbury (Pennant L90) was an escort destroyer of the Hunt Type II class. Ledbury was ordered by the United Kingdom two days after the outbreak of the Second World War and was laid down at the Southampton yard of J. I. Thornycroft Ltd on January 24, 1940. Her construction was delayed by air raid damage to the yard, and she was not launched until September 27, 1941, and began performing escort duties between Scapa Flow and Iceland. She remained in this theatre for the first part of the conflict, and was attached to the ill-fated Arctic convoy PQ17 in June 1942, from which twenty-four ships were lost.

Only two months later she took up close escort in the Pedestal convoy to Malta. During the fierce attacks which dogged the convoy, Ledbury claimed three enemy aircraft destroyed and five damaged, and was one of three destroyers which helped the crippled oil tanker SS Ohio into Grand Harbour. Her battle honours were further increased during the Allied landings in Sicily and Salerno, and in the Adriatic and Aegean. She was scrapped in 1958.

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