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Revision as of 14:25, 7 December 2016

H.M.S. Wessex (1918)
Pendant Number: F.32 (Jun 1918)[1]
Builder: Hawthorn Leslie[2]
Ordered: December, 1916[3]
Launched: 12 Mar, 1918[4]
Completed: 11 May, 1918[5]
Sunk: 24 May, 1940[6]
Fate: Air attack off Calais[7]

H.M.S. Wessex was one of twenty-one "W" class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy in 1917-18.

Service

Recommissioned on 31 August, 1918.[8]

She re-commissioned with two-fifths crew at Chatham on 13 May, 1922.[9]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 73.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 84.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 84.
  4. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 73.
  5. ↑ Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 313.
  6. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 73.
  7. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 73.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 898.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 843.
  10. ↑ Tillard Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 95.
  11. ↑ Tillard Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 95.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1920). p. 898.
  13. ↑ Horan Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/96/5. f. 5.
  14. ↑ Rainier Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/144/33. f. 363.
  15. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 288.
  16. ↑ Rainier Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/144/33. f. 363.

Bibliography


"W" Class Destroyer
Admiralty Design
Wakeful Watchman Walpole Whitley Walker
Westcott Walrus Wolfhound Warwick Wessex
Voyager Whirlwind Wrestler Winchelsea Winchester
  Westminster Windsor Wryneck Waterhen  
Thornycroft Specials
  Wolsey Woolston  
<– "V" Class Destroyers (UK) "S" Class –>


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