HMS Wallace (L64)

Casualty List

Navy: RN
Type: Destroyer
Class: Shakespeare 
Pennant: L 64 
Built by: Thornycroft (Southampton, U.K.) 
Ordered: Apr, 1917 
Laid down: Aug, 1917 
Launched: 26 Oct, 1918 
Commissioned: 29 Jan, 1919 
End service: 20 Mar, 1945 
History: Reconstructed as Fast Escort, reconstruction completed on 14 June 1939.
  HMS Wallace served mainly on British east coast escorting coastal convoy's except for a brief period in 1943 when she went to the Mediterranean for the invasion of Sicily. On 16 March 1945 she collided with HMS Farndale off the Humber and considered not worth repairing she was paid off. Being sold to be broken up for scrap 4 days later. 

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