HMS Escapade was an E class destroyer built in the early 1930s. She served during the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939 she spent considerable time in Spanish waters, enforcing the arms blockade imposed by Britain and France on both sides of the conflict. HMS Escapade was assigned to convoy escort and anti-submarine patrol duties when World War II began in September 1939.

After participating in the Norwegian Campaign, she participated in anti-invasion duty and escorted ships to Gibraltar and in Operation Menace. The destroyer returned to the British Isles for continued escort duty, punctuated by Operation Rubble and the hunt for Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in early 1941. Following a midyear refit she escorted Arctic convoys and a convoy to Malta, then went into another refit in mid-1942 before returning to the Atlantic from late 1942 to early 1943. HMS Escapade escorted convoys in the last months of the war, then was used for training before being sold for scrap in 1947.

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