HMS Tetcott was a Type II British built for the Royal Navy during World War II. She was the only Royal Navy ship to be named after the Tetcott fox hunt. Wartime service 1941 Following completion on 11 December 1941 the ship headed for Scapa Flow where it arrived on 16 December and joined the Home Fleet. The vessel collided with the corvette on 23 December which meant that the next two months were spent in repair on the Clyde and later in Southampton. 1942 The vessel was finally ready for service again on 2 March 1942 and returned to Scapa Flow for working-up. On 15 April 1942 Tetcott joined convoy WS18 at the ocean escort Clyde Assembly point. The ship escorted this convoy to Cape Town, detaching briefly to call into Freetown on the way. At Cape Town, Tetcott headed into the Indian Ocean and on to Alexandria via the Red Sea and the Suez Canal, arriving in early June 1942 where she joined the 9th Destroyer Flotilla. On 10 June the ship sailed with carrying supplies to the garrison at Tobruk. Grove was torpedoed on 12 June during the return journey and Tetcott picked up the survivors. On 16 June the ship came under heavy Axis air attack whilst defending of ships returning to Alexandria following the termination of Operation Vigorous. In July the ship operated as part of Operation Exporter off Palestine and Syria. On 4 August, with the destroyers and the ship attacked the German submarine and forced the U-boat to the surface. 16 German crew and a Lebanese civilian were rescued. In September 1942, the ship was assigned with to convoy duties in the Red Sea, but returned to the Mediterranean in October. In November 1942, the ship formed part of the close escort for Convoy MW13, from Alexandria to Malta. This convoy succeeded in reaching Malta, and the ship formed part of the close escort on the return journey. In December, Tetcott was one of the escorts in the Alexandria to Malta convoy, MW14, after which she joined the 22nd Destroyer Flotilla at Algiers. 1943 In January 1943 the ship escorted from Malta to Alexandria during cover for passage of a Malta and on 1 February rescued survivors from the minelayer which had been torpedoed off Sollum. She continued patrol and escort duties in the eastern and central Mediterranean for the next two months.