| Name: | MENDIP |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Keel: | 10/08/1939 |
| Launched: | 09/04/1940 |
| Completed: | 12/10/1940 |
| Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
| Yard: | Wallsend |
| Yard Number: | 1577 |
| Dimensions: | 1000disp - 1340disp, 278.8 x 28.8 x 10.8(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 2 x Steam turbines, Parsons type, 19000shp |
| Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 27.5knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 2 x 2 x 4.0ins QF, 1 x 4 x 2pdr QF guns; depth charges |
| History: | |
| 12/10/1940 | British Royal Navy |
| 1948 | Government of China; renamed LIN FU |
| 1949 | British Royal Navy; renamed MENDIP |
| 15/11/1949 | Government of Egypt; renamed MOHAMED ALI EL KEBIR |
| 1951 | Renamed IBRAHIM EL AWAL |
| 30/10/1956 | Government of Israel; renamed HAIFA |
| Comments: | Member of the Hunt Class (Type I) of destroyers |
| 1948: Loaned to the Nationalist Government of China | |
| 1949: Re-possessed by the British Government | |
| 1949: Sold to the Egypian Government | |
| 1956: Captured by the Israeli Navy after she was bombarding Haifa | |
| 1968 - 1972: Conflicting stories about fate as a target or broken up |
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