HMS Kipling was a K-class destroyer of the Royal Navy laid down by Yarrow, Scotstoun on 20 October 1937, launched on 19 January 1939, by the daughter of the poet Rudyard Kipling, and commissioned on 12 December 1939. On 28 December 1941 Kipling sank the German submarine U-75. Kipling was attacked by German Ju-88 bombers of Lehrgeschwader 1 north-west of Mersa Matruh in Egypt on 12 May 1942 and sunk by Joachim Helbig.