Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - HMS "Kipling", mai suna bayan marubucin kuma mawaki Rudyard Kipling, Yarrow, Scotstoun ya kafa shi a ranar 20 ga Oktoba, 1937, wanda 'yar Kipling ta kaddamar a ranar 19 ga Janairu, 1939, kuma aka ba da umurni a ranar 12 ga Disamba, 1939. A ranar 11 ga Oktoba, 1940, "Kipling", tare da wasu masu hallaka shida, sun bi jirgin ruwa mai suna HMS "Renown" don kai hare-hare a tashar jiragen ruwa na Faransa na Cherbourg. A wayewar gari a ranar 23 ga watan 1941 HMS Kelly da HMS Kashmir sun yi ritaya da sauri a yammacin Crete. Bayan sun tsira daga hare-haren iska guda biyu da aka kai musu a karfe 7.55 na safe da wani shiri na 'yan bindiga ashirin da hudu. An nutsar da jiragen ruwa biyu da sauri, tare da asarar rayuka 210. Abin farin ciki jirgin ruwan Kipling yana kusa, kuma, duk da ci gaba da fashewar bama-bamai, ya ceci daga teku 279 jami'ai da maza, ciki har da Lord Louis Mountbatten, yayin da ita kanta ta kasance ba tare da lahani ba. Washegari da safe, yayin da yake har yanzu mil hamsin daga Alexandria, kuma yana cike da maza daga tushe zuwa stern, ya gudu gaba ɗaya daga man fetur, amma an haɗu da shi cikin aminci kuma ya shiga. A ranar 17 ga Disamba, 1941, an lalata shi da ɗan ƙaramin rauni daga harsashi na 203 mm daga jirgin ruwa na Italiya "Gorizia" yayin Yaƙin Sirte na Farko.
Ka yi haƙuri. Binciken na Birtaniya ya kammala cewa "Kipling" ya kusan buga shi daga 305 mm shells da aka harbe daga "Andrea Doria" da "Giulio Cesare". An rushe tashoshinsa mara waya, tsarinsa, jirgi da kuma jiragen ruwa da aka haɗe da shi. An kashe wani ma'aikacin jirgin a lokacin da ake harbi. A ranar 28 ga Disamba 1941 "Kipling" ya nutsar da jirgin ruwan Jamus. Jirgin saman Ju 88 na Jamus na Lehrgeschwader 1 ya kai hari a arewa maso yammacin Mersa Matruh a Misira a ranar 11 ga Mayu 1942 kuma Joachim Helbig ya nutsar da shi. An kashe 29 daga cikin ma'aikatanta kuma an ceci mutane 221.