HMS Isis (D87)

HMS Isis was an I-class destroyer laid down by the Yarrow and Company, at Scotstoun in Glasgow on 6 February 1936, launched on 12 November 1936 and commissioned on 2 June 1937.

World War II
Isis was involved in the evacuation of Greece in April 1941. On 19 February 1943, she attacked and sank the enemy German submarine U-562 — while in company with the frigate HMS Hursley (L84) and a Vickers Wellington medium bomber of the Royal Air Force — in the Mediterranean, north-east of Benghazi.

Isis was hit in 1941 off Beirut, Lebanon after the Battle of Crete. She pursued two French destroyers which escaped. She was then attacked by a Ju-88 aircraft, and severely damaged. She was taken under tow by HMS Hero (H99) to Haifa, Palestine. The tow rope snapped, yet the engines were started and she successfully arrived at Haifa.

Isis struck a mine and sank off the Normandy beaches on 20 July 1944.