British destroyer HMS Intrepid liberated British steamship Stangate from the Spanish according to the Dutch newspaper Het nieuws van den dag voor Nederlandsch-Indië dated 13 March 1939

An item dated London, England 12 March reported that the steamship Stangate forced by a Spanish Nationalist warship to go to Majorca was liberated by the British destroyer HMS Intrepid responding on a radio call of a nearby British ship and escorting the Stangate to Gibraltar.

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1. D10. Of the I-class, preceded by G and H classes, succeeded by Tribal-class, laid down by J. Samuel White, Cowes, Wight on 13 January 1936, launched on 17 December 1936, sunk in a German Ju88 air attack in the harbour of Leros, Greece on 27 September 1943.