| Name: | WESSEX |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Keel: | 23/05/1917 |
| Launched: | 12/03/1918 |
| Completed: | 11/05/1918 |
| Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Hebburn |
| Yard Number: | 497 |
| Dimensions: | 1100disp - 1457disp, 300.0 x 29.5 x 8.5ft |
| Engines: | 2 x Steam turbines, Brown-Curtis type, 27000shp |
| Engines by: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 34.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 4 x 1 x 4ins QF, 2 x 1 x 2pdr QF guns; 2 x 3 x 21.0ins torpedoes |
| History: | |
| 11/05/1918 | British Royal Navy |
| 24/05/1940 | Sank |
| Comments: | Member of the W Class & assigned pennant F32 later D43 |
| 27/06/1918: Damaged in a collision with VANCOUVER | |
| 31/08/1918: Repairs completed & rejoined fleet | |
| 24/05/1940: Sunk by bombs in an air attack off Calais |
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Above photo is courtesy of Kevin Blair