| Name: | WRYNECK |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Keel: | 07/1917 |
| Launched: | 13/05/1918 |
| Completed: | 11/11/1918 |
| Builder: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Jarrow |
| Yard Number: | 879 |
| Dimensions: | 1100disp - 1457disp, 300.0 x 29.5 x 8.5(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 2 x Steam turbines, Parsons type, SR geared, 27000shp |
| Engines by: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 34.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 4 x 1 x 4.0ins QF, 2 x 2pdr guns, 2 x 3 x 21.0ins torpedoes |
| (03/1940: 2 x 2 x 4.0ins AA, 2 x 4 x 0.5ins AA) | |
| History: | |
| 11/11/1918 | British Royal Navy |
| 27/04/1941 | Sank |
| Comments: | Member of the Admiralty W Class of destroyers |
| 03/1940: Completed conversion at Gibraltar into an air defence escort ship | |
| 27/04/1941: Sunk by German aircraft 20 miles east of Cape | |
| Maleas, Greece, in position 36°30'N 23°34'E | |
| WRYNECK had on board survivors from the Dutch troopship SLAMAT | |
| About 600 crew & troops died |
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