Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name Afridi. The first HMS Afridi was a Tribal (F) class destroyer laid down by Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth and Company at Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1905, launched on 8 May 1907 and completed on 10 September 1909. HMS Afridi was sold for scrap to F. Wilkinson on 9 December 1912. The second HMS Afridi (L-07/F-07) was a Tribal class destroyer laid down by the High Walker Yard of Vickers Armstrong at Newcastle-on-Tyne on 9 June 1936, launched on 8 June 1937 by Lady Foster and commissioned on 3 May 1938. Afridi served with 4th Destroyer Flotilla of the Mediterranean Fleet, and participated in sea campaigns off Norway. HMS Afridi, commanded by Captain Philip Vian, RN, was attacked by enemy German Ju-87 dive bombers as she evacuated troops from Namsos and sank in the Norwegian Sea north-west of Namsos in Norway on 3 May 1940 with the loss of 100 men, including rescued troops and survivors from the sunken French destroyer Bison. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.