James Roberts

In January Exmoor was part of the escort for the battleship Queen Elizabeth as she sailed from Portsmouth to Rosyth. Exmoor then sailed to Harwich to begin escorting coastal convoys through the North Sea with the 16th Destroyer Flotilla. She carried out these duties into February, and on 23 February was deployed with Shearwater to escort a convoy from the Thames estuary to Methil. The convoy was attacked by E-boats as it passed off Lowestoft on 25 February. Exmoor suffered an explosion aft, suffering major structural damage and rupturing a fuel supply line. A fire soon broke out which spread rapidly. Exmoor capsized and sank in ten minutes with the loss of 104 crew. The survivors were picked up by Shearwater and the trawler Commander Evans, and were taken to Yarmouth. Exmoor struck aft by a torpedo fired by the E-Boat S30 commanded by Klaus Feldt. The Admiralty claimed HMS Exmoor had struck a mine.

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