Name HMS Contest Commissioned 9 November 1945 Construction started 1 November 1943 Draft 3.58 m | Laid down 1 November 1943 Class and type C-class destroyer Launched 16 December 1944 Builder J. Samuel White | |
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Identification Pennant number R12 (later D48) Fate Arrived for breaking up at Thos W Ward Grays, Essex on 2 February 1960 | ||
HMS Contest was a C-class destroyer of the Royal Navy, built by J. Samuel White, Cowes. She was launched on 1 November 1943 and commissioned on 9 November 1945. She was scrapped in 1960.
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Operational service
On commissioning Contest served as part of the 8th Destroyer Squadron in the Far East. She returned to the UK for a refit in 1948. She was given an interim modernization and was fitted for minelaying. In 1951 she was the Torpedo training ship at Portsmouth. She then served as part of the 6th Destroyer Squadron in the Home Fleet. In 1953 she took part in the Coronation Review of the Fleet to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
Decommissioning and disposal
Contest was paid off in the late 1950s. Following her sale she arrived at the breakers yard for scrapping at Thos W Ward Grays, Essex on 2 February 1960.