Career
HMS Medway served on the China Station before the start of the Second World War, supporting the 4th Submarine Flotilla, and was under refit at Singapore from September 1939 through February 1940. Upon its completion, she sailed for Hong Kong where she remained until she departed for Alexandria on 2 April. The ship arrived there on 3 May and supported the 1st Submarine Flotilla that operated in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Two years later, Vice-Admiral Henry Harwood, Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet, ordered all non-essential ships to leave Alexandria in June 1942 as he was preparing to demolish the port facilities there to prevent their capture by the advancing Panzer Army Africa. Medway loaded stores and 1,135 personnel on 29 June to establish a new base at Beirut, Lebanon and sailed later that day for Beirut. Accompanied by the Greek ship SS Corinthia, Medway was escorted by the light cruiser Dido and the destroyers Sikh, Zulu, Hero, Exmoor, Aldenham, Croome, and Tetcott. The next day, off Port Said, the ship was sunk by two torpedoes fired by U-372; 30 men were lost in the sinking. The British salvaged the wreck and recovered 47 of the 90 spare torpedoes aboard the ship.
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