HMS Wensleydale (L86)

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Name HMS Wensleydale Laid down 28 July 1941 Construction started 28 July 1941 Length 85 m Builder Yarrow Shipbuilders		Ordered 23 August 1940 Commissioned 20 October 1942 Launched 20 June 1942 Draft 3.51 m

Fate Declared beyond economical repair on 11 December 1944 Class and type Type III Hunt-class destroyer

HMS Wensleydale was a Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was a member of the third subgroup of the class, and saw service in the Second World War. She was adopted by the civil community of Swinton and Pendlebury during Warship Week in 1942.

In 1946 she was laid up at West Hartlepool. She was sold and scrapped by Hughes Bolckow arriving at their yard in Blythe on 25 February 1947.

Publications

Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.

English, John (1987). The Hunts: a history of the design, development and careers of the 86 destroyers of this class built for the Royal and Allied Navies during World War II. England: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-44-4.

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