HMS Foresight was a
Royal Navy F class destroyer. She operated as a fast
minesweeper during
World War II, and was sunk by air attack during
Operation Pedestal, an attempt to bring supplies to
Malta.On
18 June 1941 Foresight took part in the sinking of the
German submarine U-138 west of
Spain, together with her sister ships
Faulknor, Fearless, Forester, and Foxhound.On
6 April 1942, she left
Scapa Flow for a routine convoy patrol, escorting convoy PQ14. Of the 24 ships that made up the
convoy, sixteen were forced by unseasonal ice and bad weather to return to
Iceland, and another was sunk by a U-Boat. Along with the remaining seven convoy vessels, Foresight arrived in
Murmansk on
19 April. She then left, on
29 April, to cover the return convoy QP11. On
30 April, en route back from the
Kola Peninsula, the German submarine U-456 (under the command of Captain Max-Martin Teichert), which had been alerted to the convoy by German aerial reconnaissance, fired a
torpedo into the starboard side of the cruiser
Edinburgh. The ship began to list heavily, but did not sink. Soon after, Teichert launched a second torpedo, which struck the stern of Edinburgh, wrecking her steering equipment and effectively crippling her. Taken in tow, she attempted to limp back to Murmansk, and was hounded constantly by German
torpedo bombers. On
2 May, she was attacked by three German destroyers off
Bear Island, and torpedoed yet again. As she began to sink, her crew-members abandoned ship and took refuge in accompanying destroyers. Foresight had the task of scuttling the cruiser.
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