HMS Walpole (D41)

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Navy: Royal Navy
Type: Destroyer
Class: Admiralty V & W 
Pennant: D 41 
Mod: Short range escort 
Built by: Doxford Shipyard (Sunderland, U.K.) 
Laid down: May, 1917 
Launched: 12 Feb, 1918 
Commissioned: 7 Aug, 1918 
Complement: 134
Lost: 6 Jan, 1945  Heavily damaged by a mine off Flushing, Netherlands. 2 of the crew were killed.
 
History:  She was taken back to Kent where she was declared total loss not worth repairing. Sold to be broken up for scrap on 8 February 1945. 

27 Jul, 1940
HMS Walpole was damaged by bombs from German aircraft while escorting a convoy off Dover.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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