Kanonenboot HMS ‘Grimsby’ 1933.

An old photographic print from Germany. HMS ‘‌Grimsby’‌ (U16) was a Grimsby class sloop commissioned in 1933 and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea, north of Tobruk, on 25th May 1941 following attacks by Italian and German Ju 87 Stukas. From the time of commissioning until 1939, HMS Grimsby was based in Hong Kong and carried out patrols along the coast of China. Another ship, until recently, had the HMS ‘Grimsby name’ – a Sandown class minehunter commissioned in 1999. In 2024, the Sandown-class warships, HMS ‘Grimsby’ and HMS ‘Shoreham’, were decommissioned from the Royal Navy to be transferred to the Ukrainian military where they will operate under the names ‘Chernihiv’ and ‘Cherkasy’.