HMS Wolfhound (D56)

Casualty List

photograph from AB Fred Gillheard C/JX641432

Navy: The Royal Navy
Type: Destroyer
Class: W
Pennant: J56/ D56
Built by: Fairfield Govan
Laid down: Clyde Warship APRIL 1917
Launched: Launched by Fairfield Govan, Yard No 535, on 14/3/1918,
Commissioned: 27th April 1918
Complement:

History.

 164

8 January 1940 War Fast escort conversion at Chatham with 4 x 4in (2 x 2) guns.
1941 dive-bombed off east coast and broke in half the stern half was towed into port and she was rebuilt at Chatham 1941-43.
18/2/1948 sold and BU at Granton by Brechin.

Sold to be broken up for scrap on 18 February 1948.
 

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