HMS Middleton was a Type II Hunt class destroyer of the Royal Navy and served in the Second World War.

At the end of the Second World War, Middleton returned to Portsmouth having achieved no less than six battle honours during her brief four years of active service.

She returned to Scapa Flow in late September and was then deployed on convoy escort duty between the United Kingdom and Ireland.

The convoy survived the bad weather, which started to clear after Middleton left, and German attack to reach Russia.

She patrolled a part of the channel before the operation and then, on 6 June with ORP Ślązak, supplied covering fire to the troops assaulting Sword.

She supplied gunfire support over the next two and a half weeks as well, but her main rôle immediately post-invasion was to patrol the channel and protect the convoys from U-boats and E-boats.

She was transferred to Sheerness that very day as German naval activity in the area of Nore Command was taking advantage of the Allied concentration of troops and boats elsewhere.

German mine-laying and U-boat activity was greatly increased in early 1945 and destroyers were needed to escort the military convoys from channel ports.