| Name: | WRESTLER |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Keel: | 13/07/1917 |
| Launched: | 25/02/1918 |
| Completed: | 15/05/1918 |
| Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
| Yard: | Wallsend |
| Yard Number: | 1057 |
| 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; depthcharges; |
| (1943: 2 x 1 x 4.0ins, 1 x 12pdr guns; 1 x Hedgehog; 4 x A/S mortars; depthcharges) | |
| History: | |
| 15/05/1918 | British Royal Navy |
| 20/07/1944 | Broken up |
| Comments: | Member of the W Class |
| 01/1943: Converted to a long range escort at Sheerness DY | |
| 06/06/1944: Damaged by mine off Juno Beach, Normandy | |
| Declared a constructive total loss & not repaired | |
| 20/07/1944: Sold to J Cashmore for breaking up at Newport |
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