H.M.S. Wessex (1918)

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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-two destroyers of the "W" class.

Service

Recommissioned on 31 August, 1918.[8]

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. Tillard Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 95.
  10. Tillard Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 95.
  11. The Navy List. (July, 1920). p. 898.
  12. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 898.

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  
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