HMS Narborough

HMS Narborough was an Admiralty M-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. She was wrecked after running aground in 1918.

United Kingdom
Name: HMS Narborough
Builder: John Brown & Company, Clydebank
Launched: 2 March 1916
Fate: Wrecked on 12 January 1918
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Narborough_(1916)

Just one man survived when HMS Opal and Narborough ran aground off South Ronaldsay in a snowstorm during a patrol on January 12 1918.
The islands served as the principal front-line base for the Royal Navy in both wars with Germany, with the enormous natural harbour at Scapa Flow an ideal anchorage for capital ships.
The Germans tried to disrupt operations either by laying mines – such as those which sank the cruiser HMS Hampshire, carrying legendary war leader Lord Kitchener in June 1916 – or dispatching U-boats.
It fell to smaller ships like Opal and Narborough to patrol the waters and hunt down any minelayers or submarines.
So bad was the weather on that fateful Saturday in 1918 that the destroyers were ordered back to base for fear of being swamped.
Instead, they ran into the rocks in near-zero visibility.
https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-a...kney-isles-to-mark-centenary-of-naval-tragedy