HMS Relentless (H 85) History

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Navy	The Royal Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	R
Pennant	H 85
Built by	John Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd. (Clydebank, Scotland)
Ordered	May, 1940
Laid down	20 Jun, 1941
Launched	15 Jul, 1942
Commissioned	30 Nov, 1942
End service
Loss position

History	Reconstructed as Type 15 frigate during 1949-1951. Scrapped in 1971. *Commanding Officers:* Lt.Cdr. Robert Augustus Fell, RN 19 October 1942 - 18 September 1944 Lt.Cdr. George Baillie Barstow, RN 18 September 1944 - still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List

Noteable events involving Relentless include:

22 Sep, 1943

HMS Relentless (Lt.Cdr. R.A. Fell, RN) picks up 34 survivors of the American merchant Cornelia P. Spencer that was torpedoed and sunk the previous day by the German submarine U-188 about 300 nautical miles off the coast of Somalia in position 02°08'N, 50°10'E

12 Feb, 1944

HMS Relentless (Lt.Cdr. R.A. Fell, RN) intercepts the German tanker Charlotte Schliemann (7747 GRT) in the Indian Ocean in position 23°23'S, 74°37'E. However before the German ship can be captured, she is scuttled by her own crew.