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Name: WHIRLWIND
Type: Destroyer
Keel: 22/06/1942
Launched: 30/08/1943
Completed: 20/07/1944
Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 657
Dimensions: 1710disp - 2530disp, 339.5 x 35.7 x 10.0(draft)ft
Engines: 2 x Steam turbines, SR geared, Parsons type, 40000shp
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 37.0knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 4 x 1 x 4.7ins QF, 1 x 4 x 2pdr QF, 1 x 2 x 40mm, 4 x AA guns;
2 x 4 x 21.0ins torpedoes, 4 x depth charge throwers
(1953: 1 x 2 x 4.0ins, 1 x 2 x 40mm guns; 2 x 3 x Squid AS mortars)
History:
26/04/1944 British Royal Navy
29/10/1974 Sank
Comments: Member of the W Class of destroyers
1953: Converted into a Type 15 frigate at Palmers Hebburn
As converted, the twin 4.0ins gun was placed aft of the main superstructure
The conversion was to provide fast anti submarine hunters
29/10/1974: Foundered at moorings in Cardigan Bay while used as a target


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Above photo is copyright of the Imperial War Museum

Above photo is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo is copyright of the Imperial War Museum

Above photo showing WHIRLWIND at Palmers is courtesy of Kevin Blair. CLICK to enlarge/BACK to return

Above photo, after conversion, is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo, after conversion & showing the aft facing 4.0ins guns, is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo, after conversion, is courtesy of Tim Webb. CLICK to enlarge/BACK to return

Copied and digitised by Terry Summerson from the original Shipyard Data Books. Click HERE to enlarge.

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