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HMS Inconstant

HMS Inconstant (H-49) was an I class destroyer laid down as Mauvenet for the Turkish Navy by Vickers Armstrong Naval Construction Works at Barrow-in-Furness on 24 May 1939, purchased in September 1939, launched on 24 February 1941 and commissioned on 24 January 1942. Inconstant participated in the assault on Madagascar in May 1942, and attacked and sank the enemy German submarines U-409 in the Mediterranean north-east of Algiers on 12 July 1943 and U-767 while in company with the destroyers HMS Fame and HMS Havelock in the English Channel south-west of Guernsey on 18 June 1944. HMS Inconstant was returned to Turkey on 9 March 1946 and renamed Muavenet. She was discarded in 1960.

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