| Name: | WHIRLWIND |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Keel: | 01/05/1917 |
| Launched: | 15/12/1917 |
| Completed: | 28/03/1918 |
| Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
| Yard: | Wallsend |
| Yard Number: | 1055 |
| Dimensions: | 1100disp - 1457disp, 300.0 x 29.5 x 8.5ft |
| Engines: | 2 x Steam turbines, Brown-Curtis type, 27000shp |
| Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 34.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 4 x 1 x 4.0ins QF, 1 x 3.0ins guns; 2 x 3 x 21.0ins torpedoes; |
| & fitted for depth charges | |
| History: | |
| 15/03/1918 | British Royal Navy |
| 05/07/1940 | Sank |
| Comments: | Member of the Admiralty W Class of destroyers |
| 05/07/1940: Damaged by torpedo from U-Boat U34, | |
| 120 miles west of Land's End, in position 50.17N - 8.48W. | |
| Critically damaged she was scuttled by WESTCOTT |
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