Name HMS Walpole Commissioned 7 August 1918 Launched 12 February 1918 Tons burthen 1.27 million kg | Laid down May 1917 Construction started May 1917 Weight 1,207 tons Builder William Doxford & Sons | |
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Motto Fari quod aentiaa ' Speak as you feel' Honours and
awards Atlantic 1939-43
Dover Strait 1942
English Channel 1942-44
North Sea 1942-44
Normandy 1944 Fate Damaged by mine on 6 January 1945
Sold for scrapping on 8 February 1945 | ||
HMS Walpole (D41) was a W-class destroyer of the Royal Navy.
The ship was built under the 1916-17 programme in the 10th Destroyer order. Walpole was assigned to the 13th Destroyer Flotilla in the Grand Fleet after completion, and served until almost the end of the Second World War. Her role was mostly convoy escort duties, but she took part in two combined arms operations (Operations Amsterdam and Jubilee) and the D-day landings (Operation Neptune). She hit a mine on 6 January 1945 and was subsequently declared a constructive total loss and broken up in Thos W Ward Grays, Essex in March 1945.
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