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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| WENSLEYDALE |
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GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1942 |
20/06/1942 |
30/10/1942 |
| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Naval Destroyer
| Steel Steam Turbine |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Yarrow & Co. Ltd., Glasgow |
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1770 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| / / 1050 disp |
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| Engine builder |
, |
| Engine detail |
| 2 - Screw Parsons Geared Steam Turbines |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| The Admiralty, London. |
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| Other names |
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| Subsequent owner and registration history |
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| Vessel history |
Escort Destroyer, RN. (L.86) Hunt class Type III
Battle Honours Atlantic 1943/4 - English Channel 1943/4 - North Sea 1943 - Normandy 1944. |
| Remarks |
21/11/1944 Damaged in a collision in the English Channel with HMS LST 367 and laid up.
1945 Low category reserve at West Hartlepool.
15/02/1946 Sold to BISCO for breaking up. |
| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1946 |
Broken Up 15/02/1946 |
| Disposal Detail |
| 25/02/1947 arrived at Blyth for scrapping by Hughes Bolcow. |
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HMS WENSLEYDALE 19/3/1946 Plymouth
Image courtesy of : IWM A22472
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