HMS Gravelines (D24)

HMS Gravelines was a Battle-class destroyer of the Royal Navy.

She was named after the Battle of Gravelines, which took place in 1588, resulting in the English Navy defeating the Spanish Armada.

[2] Gravelines exchanged crews with the destroyer St. Kitts on 10 March 1953 and returned to the UK where she was paid off into the reserve fleet.

[3] In 1955, Gravelines, with the rest of the 3rd Flotilla, returned once again to the Mediterranean, and was in the area during the Suez Crisis, which had occurred in response to the Egyptian President Nasser's nationalisation of the Suez Canal.

That same year, Gravelines returned to a colder climate, when she, along with the rest of the Flotilla, joined the Home Fleet, based in the UK.