HMS Grove (L77) was a destroyer of the Royal Navy. She had been completed in early 1942 at the Swan Hunter yard at Wallsend-on-Tyne. Service history Initial success Grove, along with other ships of the 2nd Escort Group, namely , and , had sunk the German submarine . This followed a 'Huff Duff' (High frequency Direction finding) interception. Loss While escorting convoy MW-11, Grove was hit by two torpedoes fired by on 12 June 1942. The ship sank with the loss of 110 men. The destroyer rescued 79 survivors. She had been returning to Alexandria from Tobruk, having run aground at Tobruk, damaging the port propeller shaft and the screw itself; her speed had been reduced to . References Hunt-class destroyers of the Royal Navy Ships built by Swan Hunter Ships built on the River Tyne 1941 ships World War II destroyers of the United Kingdom Ships sunk by German submarines in World War II World War II shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea Maritime incidents in June 1942