HMS Alamein (D17) was a Later or 1943 Battle-class fleet destroyer of the British Royal Navy.
She was named in honour of the Battle of El Alamein, which took place in 1942 during the Second World War, between Commonwealth forces and the German Afrika Korps.
[1] In 1948, Alamein, along with her sister-ship HMS Barrosa, escorted the aircraft carrier HMS Vengeance for exercises in Northern and Home waters, though she did not join the two on their subsequent visit to Northern Ireland.
which was eventually traced to faulty wiring on radio equipment in the Wardroom, which spread to the Ops Room.
In 1959, Alamein was decommissioned and placed in Reserve for the final time, being broken up at Blyth in Northumberland in 1964.