HMS Dunkirk (D09) was a later or 1943 Battle-class fleet destroyer of the British Royal Navy (RN).

Though there were other ships of the Navy that had been named Dunkirk, as far back as the 1650s, it held added meaning after the evacuation from Dunkirk between late May and early June 1940, in which over 300,000 British, as well as French troops, were rescued by a ragtag fleet of ships.

In the year of her commissioning, Dunkirk joined the 4th Destroyer Flotilla of the Home Fleet.

She subsequently performed a variety of duties and in 1958, while in the Mediterranean, Dunkirk, in broad daylight, was hit by her sister ship HMS Jutland during Officer of the Watch manoeuvres off Malta, causing minor damage.

Instead of returning home to the UK from the deployment's culmination Dunkirk deployed to the Mediterranean to take up the duties of HMS Broadsword, a Weapon-class destroyer of the 7th Destroyer Squadron, based in the Mediterranean, which had experienced some engine problems and therefore had to be replaced.